Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Biochem J. 2022 Feb 11;479(3):327-335. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20210793.
Plants benefit from their close association with soil microbes which assist in their response to abiotic and biotic stressors. Yet much of what we know about plant stress responses is based on studies where the microbial partners were uncontrolled and unknown. Under climate change, the soil microbial community will also be sensitive to and respond to abiotic and biotic stressors. Thus, facilitating plant adaptation to climate change will require a systems-based approach that accounts for the multi-dimensional nature of plant-microbe-environment interactions. In this perspective, we highlight some of the key factors influencing plant-microbe interactions under stress as well as new tools to facilitate the controlled study of their molecular complexity, such as fabricated ecosystems and synthetic communities. When paired with genomic and biochemical methods, these tools provide researchers with more precision, reproducibility, and manipulability for exploring plant-microbe-environment interactions under a changing climate.
植物受益于与土壤微生物的密切联系，这些微生物有助于植物应对非生物和生物胁迫。然而，我们对植物胁迫反应的了解很大程度上是基于那些微生物伙伴不受控制和未知的研究。在气候变化下，土壤微生物群落也将对非生物和生物胁迫敏感，并做出响应。因此，促进植物适应气候变化需要采用一种基于系统的方法，考虑到植物-微生物-环境相互作用的多维性质。在这个视角下，我们强调了一些影响胁迫下植物-微生物相互作用的关键因素，以及一些新的工具，以促进对其分子复杂性的控制研究，例如人工生态系统和合成群落。当与基因组和生化方法结合使用时，这些工具为研究人员在气候变化下探索植物-微生物-环境相互作用提供了更高的精度、可重复性和可操作性。
