Microbiome Research for Animal, Plant and Environmental Health: Second Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiomes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editors
Interests: probiotics; microbiota; microbiome; beneficial microbes; multi-omics; lactic acid bacteria
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Interests: natural products; probiotics; microbiome; rhizobiome; cellular stress responses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, “Microbiome Research for Animal, Plant and Environmental Health” (https://www.mdpi.com/si/195604).
Microbial communities play an integral role in the homeostasis and physiology of macro- and micro-ecosystems. Accumulating evidence demonstrates the critical impact of human microbiota on health and disease. In this context, it is recognized that the host microbiota contributes to crucial processes, such as nutrient synthesis and digestion, immunomodulation, intestinal barrier integrity, and protection against pathogenic insults, while exerting extraintestinal and systemic effects. By extension, microbiota research is of great interest because of its potential applications in the field of agriculture and animal husbandry. Indeed, the soil microbiome, as well as the plant microbiome and the rhizosphere microbiome (rhizobiome), can influence plant health, nutritional value, and the ability of plants to adapt to and withstand extreme environmental conditions, thus having major ecological and economic implications. In addition, the correlation between microbiota composition and the spread of pathogens to animals and the food chain is gaining increasing attention in the context of the “One Health” approach. Manipulating the composition of microbiota in these ecosystems can have a significant impact on human and animal health whilst also contributing to sustainable agriculture.
As Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to submit original research articles, review articles, and short communications on various aspects of animal, plant, environmental, or soil microbiome research, new mechanistic insights into host–microbe interactions, methods of microbiome manipulation, and innovative technologies for sustainable livestock and agri-food production.
Dr. Alex Galanis
Dr. Aglaia Pappa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental microbiome
- soil microbiome
- rhizobiome
- host–microbe interactions
- microbiome manipulation
- sustainable agriculture
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