Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture

Cyd E. Hamilton; James D. Bever; Jessy Labbé; Xiaohan Yang; Hengfu Yin

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2015.10.006

Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture

Cyd E. Hamilton, James D. Bever, Jessy Labbé, Xiaohan Yang, Hengfu Yin

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Abstract

The importance of increasing crop production while reducing resource inputs and land-use change cannot be overstated especially in light of climate change and a human population growth projected to reach nine billion this century. Mutualistic plant-microbe interactions offer a novel approach to enhance agricultural productivity while reducing environmental costs. In concert with other novel agronomic technologies and management, plant-microbial mutualisms could help increase crop production and reduce yield losses by improving resistance and/or resilience to edaphic, biologic, and climatic variability from both bottom-up and top-down perspectives.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	304-308
Number of pages	5
Journal	Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Volume	216
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.10.006
State	Published - Jan 15 2016

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This research was supported in part by the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) , Research Participation Program administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the DOE. ORISE is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) under DOE contract number DE-AC05-06OR23100 . All opinions expressed in this paper are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect the policies and views of DOE, ORAU, or ORISE

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U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Oak Ridge Associated Universities	DE-AC05-06OR23100
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Keywords

Agroecology
Climate change
GHGe
Mitigation
Plant-microbe interactions
Symbiosis
Synthetic communities

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