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Synthetic microbial communities for engineering climate‐smart biofertilizers

  • Yan Liu1
  • Yuehua Chen2,1
  • Yanxue Yu3
  • Che Ok Jeon4
  • Mohammad Bahram5,6
  • Junfeng Zhai3
  • Hai‐Lei Wei7
  • Fang Wang8
  • Xiaofeng Cao9
  • Baolei Jia1
9 affiliations
  1. 1Xianghu Laboratory Hangzhou China
  2. 2Horticulture Research Institute Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences Hangzhou China
  3. 3Institute of Plant Quarantine Chinese Academy of Quality and Inspection & Testing Beijing China
  4. 4Department of Life Science Chung‐Ang University Seoul Republic of Korea
  5. 5Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Technical Sciences Aarhus University Slagelse Denmark
  6. 6Department of Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden
  7. 7Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing China
  8. 8Hainan Seed Industry Laboratory Sanya China
  9. 9Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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Abstract

Global agricultural productivity is increasingly destabilized by climate change-driven droughts, floods, extreme heat, and severe storms. Although the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) framework addresses these challenges, implementation has focused mainly on plant genetics and agronomic inputs, leaving the adaptive potential of the crop microbiome underexplored. Here, we examine the agricultural use of synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) through the "crop holobiont" concept, in which plants and their associated microbiota function as an integrated, responsive system rather than through plant genomes alone. Pioneer plants in extreme environments may serve as reservoirs of stress-adapted microbes and provide a strategic toolkit for advancing CSA. SynComs assembled from these microbes can act not only as nutrient suppliers but also as dynamic physiological modulators that enhance crop phenotypic plasticity under climatic stress. We propose a roadmap for crop microbiology that integrates synthetic ecological engineering, with broad implications for CSA.

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@article{liu2026synthetic,
  title = {{Synthetic microbial communities for engineering climate‐smart biofertilizers}},
  author = {Yan Liu and Yuehua Chen and Yanxue Yu and Che Ok Jeon and Mohammad Bahram and Junfeng Zhai and Hai‐Lei Wei and Fang Wang and Xiaofeng Cao and Baolei Jia},
  journal = {iMeta},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  doi = {10.1002/imt2.70140},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.70140},
  note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Synthetic microbial communities for engineering climate‐smart biofertilizers
AU  - Yan Liu
AU  - Yuehua Chen
AU  - Yanxue Yu
AU  - Che Ok Jeon
AU  - Mohammad Bahram
AU  - Junfeng Zhai
AU  - Hai‐Lei Wei
AU  - Fang Wang
AU  - Xiaofeng Cao
AU  - Baolei Jia
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/01
JO  - iMeta
DO  - 10.1002/imt2.70140
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.70140
AB  - Global agricultural productivity is increasingly destabilized by climate change-driven droughts, floods, extreme heat, and severe storms. Although the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) framework addresses these challenges, implementation has focused mainly on plant genetics and agronomic inputs, leaving the adaptive potential of the crop microbiome underexplored. Here, we examine the agricultural use of synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) through the "crop holobiont" concept, in which plants and their associated microbiota function as an integrated, responsive system rather than through plant genomes alone. Pioneer plants in extreme environments may serve as reservoirs of stress-adapted microbes and provide a strategic toolkit for advancing CSA. SynComs assembled from these microbes can act not only as nutrient suppliers but also as dynamic physiological modulators that enhance crop phenotypic plasticity under climatic stress. We propose a roadmap for crop microbiology that integrates synthetic ecological engineering, with broad implications for CSA.
SN  - 2770-596X
SN  - 2770-5986
ER  -