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From Soil-Plant-Microbial Interactions to New-Concept Biopesticides and Biofertilizers
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From Soil-Plant-Microbial Interactions to New-Concept Biopesticides and Biofertilizers

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 5143

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Nazrul Islam

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Morden Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, MB, Canada
Interests: soil and crop health; metagenomics of microbiomes; diseases suppressive soils; phytopathogens and mycotoxins; biofertilizers and biocontrol inoculants

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A growing worldwide concern is the injudicious use of agrochemicals such as fertilizer, fungicide, insecticide or soil treatments in intensive crop production systems, posing major threats to environmental pollution, health hazards and global food security. Researchers are striving to find alternatives to synthetic inorganic chemicals for sustainable agriculture. A diverse group of microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria, archaea, protists and nematodes, have shown potential and are being promoted as commercial biofertilizers (bioinoculants) to enhance soil fertility, abiotic stress resilience, pathogen/disease suppression/control and crop productivity. Little is known about the survival, persistence, establishment, mode of action and functions of microbial inoculants, and their impacts on indigenous microbial communities and agroecosystems are poorly understood.

The aim of this Special Issue is to publish original research and review articles on the understanding of the interactions among microbiomes, soils, environments, above- as well as belowground climates and crop varieties. We are particularly interested to apprehend the agronomic challenges and prospects of these biotechnological products in growers’ field and greenhouse conditions. Therefore, the submission of research articles that examine innovative approaches, not limited to the formulation of biofertilizer/inoculant, bioefficacy, bioremediation and environmental consequences at the molecular, cellular and metagenomics levels, are welcome.

Dr. Nazrul Islam
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • plant–microbiome–climate interactions
  • biofertilizers and bioinoculants
  • crop productivity

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17 pages, 900 KiB  
Review
Microbial Metabolomics Interaction and Ecological Challenges of Trichoderma Species as Biocontrol Inoculant in Crop Rhizosphere
by Saleh Ahmed Shahriar, M. Nazrul Islam, Charles Ng Wai Chun, Parwinder Kaur, Md. Abdur Rahim, Md. Mynul Islam, Jasim Uddain and Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee
Agronomy 2022, 12(4), 900; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12040900 - 08 Apr 2022
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Abstract
The fungal species belonging to the genus Trichoderma has been globally recognized as a potential candidate of biofertilizer and biocontrol agent to prevent devastating soil-borne fungal pathogens and enhance growth and productivity of agricultural crops. The antagonistic activity of Trichoderma to pathogenic fungi [...] Read more.
The fungal species belonging to the genus Trichoderma has been globally recognized as a potential candidate of biofertilizer and biocontrol agent to prevent devastating soil-borne fungal pathogens and enhance growth and productivity of agricultural crops. The antagonistic activity of Trichoderma to pathogenic fungi is attributed to several mechanisms including antibiosis and enzymatic hydrolysis, which are largely associated with a wide range of metabolites secreted by the Trichoderma species. Besides suppressing target pathogens, several metabolites produced by Trichoderma species may act against non-pathogenic beneficial soil microbial communities and perform unintended alterations within the structures and functions of microbial communities in the crop rhizosphere. Multiple microbial interactions have been shown to enhance biocontrol efficacy in many cases as compared to bioinoculant employed alone. The key advances in understanding the ecological functions of the Trichoderma species with special emphasis on their associations with plant roots and other microbes exist in the crop rhizosphere, which are briefly described here. This review focuses on the interactions of metabolites secreted by Trichoderma species and plant roots in the rhizosphere and their impacts on pathogenic and non-pathogenic soil microbial communities. The complex interactions among Trichoderma–plants–microbes that may occur in the crop rhizosphere are underlined and several prospective avenues for future research in this area are briefly explored. The data presented here will stipulate future research on sustainably maximizing the efficiency of Trichoderma inoculation and their secondary metabolites in the crop soil ecosystem. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Soil-Plant-Microbial Interactions to New-Concept Biopesticides and Biofertilizers)
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

1. A Review on Metagenomes of Antibiotic Biosynthetic Clusters in Crop Disease-Suppressive Soils 

Affiliations: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Approximate Submission Time: 1 July 2023

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