Editorial: Special thematic issue on microbe-assisted crop production.

摘要: Crop production is globally impacted by climate change and demographic development. The increasing world's population, diminishing land resources, extreme weather events, highly variable conditions emerging pathogens require new solutions. Furthermore, many pesticides inorganic fertilizers are harmful for human/animal safety our environment; therefore, in several countries legislation has demanded lower inputs sound agricultural management. Considering the fact that food to be substantially increased coming decades feed growing there an urgent need develop novel approaches combat biotic abiotic plant stress enabling a sustainable development. Similar human gut, plants associated with complex microbiota, which important physiology functioning of their host. Microbiota guts or confer functions such as nutrient uptake, antagonism invading pathogens, protection against providing metabolic capacities (Berendsen, Pieterse Bakker 2012; Ramirez-Puebla et al. 2013; Hardoim 2015). Aleklett Hart (2013) suggested microbiome extension host genotype. Well known interactions between mycorrhizal fungi legumes nitrogen-fixing bacteria, all very cycling uptake contribution crop production. However, more beneficial known, high number different microbial taxa … [↵][1]* Corresponding author: E-mail: angela.sessitsch{at}ait.ac.at [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1