Mengcen Wang's research group constructed a research framework and design strategy for interleaf microbiome

Disease resistance breeding of crops mainly depends on the mining and utilization of disease resistance genes of host plants, but the rapid evolution of plant pathogens has aggravated the loss
of crop disease resistance.
The leaf interfoliate is the largest biological surface on Earth and also provides a vast habitat
for functional microorganisms.
Efficient excavation and discovery of interleaf microbiota resistant to plant diseases can provide a potential solution for the treatment of crop disease resistance loss, and is also of great significance for ensuring food security production and sustainable agricultural development in China
。 At present, the molecular mechanism of interleaf microbial community assembly and regulation of host disease resistance is still insufficient, which also greatly limits the accurate design of disease-resistant interleaf microbiome and the stable play
of field control effect.

2 January 2022 On February 6, Wang Mengcen's research group from the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Zhejiang University published a report entitled " Pathways to engineering the phyllosphere microbiome for sustainable crop production.

For the first time, the factors influencing the assembly of interleaf microbial communities and the regulatory mechanism of interleaf microbial communities on plant host disease resistance were systematically discussed The interphyll microbiome research framework and design strategy integrating holographic omics, genetic manipulation, high-throughput culture identification and emerging artificial intelligence technologies were constructed.
It provides new ideas for in-depth understanding of plant microbial interaction mechanism and efficient mining of disease-resistant microbial resources.

The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and the Cao Guangbiao High-tech Development Fund.

Dr.
Chengfang Zhan from the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Zhejiang University is the first author of the paper, Professor Mengcen Wang is the corresponding author, and doctoral research student HarunaMatsumoto Dr.
Yufei Liu from the School of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science also participated in the work; Zhejiang University is the first and corresponding author
.

Original link:

style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;-ms-text-justify:inter-ideograph;" _msthash="101743" _msttexthash="22051263">Chengfang Zhan, Haruna Matsumoto, Yufei Liu, Mengcen Wang.
(2022).
Pathways to engineering the phyllosphere microbiome for sustainable crop production.
Nature Food, doi: https://doi.
org/10.
1038/s43016-022-00636-2.