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Journal Article
The Soil Microbiota Recovery in the Agroecosystem: Minimal Information and a New Framework for Sustainable Agriculture
2022
Overview
The efficient management of soil represents a mission of vital importance for meeting the continuously increasing agricultural demand in a sustainable way. Decades of research identified in the biotechnological potential of soil microorganisms an always more practicable channel for achieving these goals. Due to the complexity of soil microbial communities and their tight connection to soil characteristics, it is still difficult to define universal strategies for an efficient and sustainable agroecosystem management. We here propose a new framework for the assessment of the impact of agricultural practices in the agroecosystem that revolves around the concept of microbial community recovery. This assessment is based on the selection of (i) a representative temporal interval, (ii) a representative agricultural system and (iii) monitoring tools able to assess the expression levels of microbial functionality in soil. This approach can be especially valuable for evaluating the effects of agrochemicals and other agronomical amendments (of different nature: biological, physical, chemical) on the soil microbiota. In the same way precision-medicine tries to tailor drugs on an always smaller subset of patients’ characteristics, a new generation of agrochemicals can be developed and tested considering soil characteristics in order to minimize their off-target effects. What remains central in this paradigm is the promotion of Soil Health maintenance practices. As for healthy humans, a healthy soil is more resilient and tolerates treatments and stresses better while recovering more quickly.
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MDPI AG,MDPI
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