Managing plant health is a great challenge formodern food production and is further complicated by thelack of common ground between the many disciplinesinvolved in disease control. Here we present the concept ofrhizos...Managing plant health is a great challenge formodern food production and is further complicated by thelack of common ground between the many disciplinesinvolved in disease control. Here we present the concept ofrhizosphere immunity, in which plant health is consideredas an ecosystem level property emerging from networks ofinteractions between plants, microbiota and the surround-ing soil matrix. These interactions can potentially extendthe innate plant immune system to a point where therhizosphere immunity can fulfil all four core functions ofafull immune system: pathogen prevention, recognition,response and homeostasis. We suggest that consideringplant health from a meta-organism perspective will help indeveloping multidisciplinary pathogen management stra-tegies that focus on steering the whole plant-microbe-soilnetworks instead of individual components. This might beachieved by bringing together the latest discoveries inphytopathology, microbiome research, soil science andagronomy to pave the way toward more sustainable andproductive agriculture.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41922053, 41671248,ZW)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities KYXK202009-KYXK202012+2 种基金the National Key Research and DevelopmentProgram of China (2018YFD1000800,ZW)the National Key BasicResearch Program of China (2015CB150503,QS)AJ is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research project ALW.870.15.050 and the H2020 project “Viroplant”. VPF is supported by Royal SocietyResearch Grants (RSG\R1\180213 and CHL\R1\180031) at the University of York.
文摘Managing plant health is a great challenge formodern food production and is further complicated by thelack of common ground between the many disciplinesinvolved in disease control. Here we present the concept ofrhizosphere immunity, in which plant health is consideredas an ecosystem level property emerging from networks ofinteractions between plants, microbiota and the surround-ing soil matrix. These interactions can potentially extendthe innate plant immune system to a point where therhizosphere immunity can fulfil all four core functions ofafull immune system: pathogen prevention, recognition,response and homeostasis. We suggest that consideringplant health from a meta-organism perspective will help indeveloping multidisciplinary pathogen management stra-tegies that focus on steering the whole plant-microbe-soilnetworks instead of individual components. This might beachieved by bringing together the latest discoveries inphytopathology, microbiome research, soil science andagronomy to pave the way toward more sustainable andproductive agriculture.
