Manipulating microbial metabolic flexibility for climate-smart biotechnological applications in agriculture
Islam, Z.F., Manipulating microbial metabolic flexibility for climate-smart biotechnological applications in agriculture, Microbiology Australia, 46(4), 210–212. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/MA25059
In a changing global environment, climate-smart biotechnological solutions are becoming increasingly important to help to protect the future productivity of Australian agriculture. Globally, there have been increasing calls to integrate microbial-based solutions into current and future technologies,1 with the agricultural sector particularly suitable for innovation. A changing global climate can have numerous deleterious effects on agricultural productivity, including but not limited to increased soil salinity and acidity due to variable water cycling, increased thermal stress within crops, increased disease occurrence and increased land erosion due to more volatile weather events.2,3 With a growing global population predicted to exceed 10 billion people by the year 2025,4 novel solutions to increase crop productivity on limited arable land are becoming increasingly important.
