Solutions in microbiome engineering: prioritizing barriers to organism establishment
Abstrak
Microbiome engineering is increasingly being employed as a solution to challenges in health, agriculture, and climate. Often manipulation involves inoculation of new microbes designed to improve function into a preexisting microbial community. Despite, increased efforts in microbiome engineering inoculants frequently fail to establish and/or confer long-lasting modifications on ecosystem function. We posit that one underlying cause of these shortfalls is the failure to consider barriers to organism establishment. This is a key challenge and focus of macroecology research, specifically invasion biology and restoration ecology. We adopt a framework from invasion biology that summarizes establishment barriers in three categories: (1) propagule pressure, (2) environmental filtering, and (3) biotic interactions factors. We suggest that biotic interactions is the most neglected factor in microbiome engineering research, and we recommend a number of actions to accelerate engineering solutions.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (8)
Michaeline B. N. Albright
Stilianos Louca
D. Winkler
K. Feeser
S. Haig
Katrine L. Whiteson
J. Emerson
J. Dunbar
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2021
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 134×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41396-021-01088-5
- Akses
- Open Access ✓