Synergistically promoting plant health by harnessing synthetic microbial communities and prebiotics
Jianfeng Du,
Yang Li,
Saif- Ur-Rehman,
Irum Mukhtar,
Ziyi Yin,
Hansong Dong,
Hongfeng Wang,
Xiaoying Zhang,
Zheng Gao,
Xiangyu Zhao,
Xiufang Xin,
Xinhua Ding
Affiliations
Jianfeng Du
State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong 271018, P. R. China
Yang Li
State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong 271018, P. R. China
Saif- Ur-Rehman
State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong 271018, P. R. China
Irum Mukhtar
Institute of Oceanography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Ziyi Yin
State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong 271018, P. R. China
Hansong Dong
State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong 271018, P. R. China
Hongfeng Wang
Shandong Pengbo Biotechnology Co., LTD, Taian 271018, China
Xiaoying Zhang
Shandong Pengbo Biotechnology Co., LTD, Taian 271018, China
Zheng Gao
College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, P.R. China
Xiangyu Zhao
College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, P.R. China
Xiufang Xin
Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and CAS John Innes Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Sciences, Shanghai, China
Xinhua Ding
State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong 271018, P. R. China; Corresponding author
Summary: Soil-borne diseases cause serious economic losses in agriculture. Managing diseases with microbial preparations is an excellent approach to soil-borne disease prevention. However, microbial preparations often exhibit unstable effects, limiting their large-scale application. This review introduces and summarizes disease-suppressive soils, the relationship between carbon sources and the microbial community, and the application of human microbial preparation concepts to plant microbial preparations. We also propose an innovative synthetic microbial community assembly strategy with synergistic prebiotics to promote healthy plant growth and resistance to disease. In this review, a new approach is proposed to improve traditional microbial preparations; provide a better understanding of the relationships among carbon sources, beneficial microorganisms, and plants; and lay a theoretical foundation for developing new microbial preparations.
