Potential use of microbial community genomes in various dimensions of agriculture productivity and its management: A review
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2022
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Abstract
Agricultural productivity is highly influenced by its associated microbial community. With
advancements in omics technology, metagenomics is known to play a vital role in
microbial world studies by unlocking the uncultured microbial populations present in
the environment. Metagenomics is a diagnostic tool to target unique signature loci
of plant and animal pathogens as well as beneficial microorganisms from samples.
Here, we reviewed various aspects of metagenomics from experimental methods
to techniques used for sequencing, as well as diversified computational resources,
including databases and software tools. Exhaustive focus and study are conducted
on the application of metagenomics in agriculture, deciphering various areas, including
pathogen and plant disease identification, disease resistance breeding, plant pest
control, weed management, abiotic stress management, post-harvest management,
discoveries in agriculture, source of novel molecules/compounds, biosurfactants and
natural product, identification of biosynthetic molecules, use in genetically modified
crops, and antibiotic-resistant genes. Metagenomics-wide association studies study
in agriculture on crop productivity rates, intercropping analysis, and agronomic field
is analyzed. This article is the first of its comprehensive study and prospects from an
agriculture perspective, focusing on a wider range of applications of metagenomics and
its association studies.
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agriculture, metagenomics-wide association studies, metagenome, software tools, web resources