Month: September 2022

"THE GREEN REVOLUTION temporarily alleviated world hunger, but also reduced biodiversity, nutrient cycling, and carbon (C) sequestration that agricultural lands can provide. Meanwhile, economic disparity and food insecurity within and among countries continues." https://lnkd.in/eQvzCYA View in LinkedIn

NEW CHEMICAL-HUNGRY PLANTS. "Green Revolution technological advances resulted in plant genetic combinations that responded to chemical inputs with high yields." In a combination of innocence and cunning strategy this fostered a toxic absolute dependency on chemical-addicted plants. https://lnkd.in/eN2uuPe View in LinkedIn

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION. "Negative environmental implications include soil degradation, increased greenhouse gas emissions, accumulation of pesticides and diminished availability and quality of water. In fact, agricultural intensification is perceived as one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity." https://lnkd.in/e4AX4yB View in LinkedIn

MONSANTO'S GLYCOPHOSPHATE ROUNDUP. "Glycophosphate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. It acts as a false phosphate. It has immensely destructive potential on the soil microorganisms." The poster child of bad practices. https://lnkd.in/en3p-yV View in LinkedIn

"THE PLANT MICROBIOME encompasses the diverse functional gene pool, originating from viruses, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes, associated with various habitats of a plant host. Such plant habitats range from the whole organism (individual plants) to specific organs (e.g. roots, leaves, shoots, flowers, and seeds, including zones of interaction between roots and the surrounding soil, the rhizosphere." https://lnkd.in/eR5r2Dq View in LinkedIn

EXTERNALIZED FUNCTIONALITY. "The rhizospheric microbiome acts as a highly evolved external functional milieu for plants...it is considered as a second genome to a plant. The establishment of plant and rhizospheric microbiome interaction is a highly coordinated event influenced by the plant host and soil. Recent studies show that plant host and developmental stage has a significant influence on shaping the rhizospheric microbiome." https://lnkd.in/eR5r2Dq View in LinkedIn

" "METAORGANISM. "Plants are being considered as a metaorganism," http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/166/2/689.full View in LinkedIn

OUTSOURCED GENOMES. "Microorganisms that colonize different plant compartments contain the plant’s second genome." An elegantly efficient solution to obtain genetic flexibility and enormous optionality. https://lnkd.in/eFwYd-J View in LinkedIn

RANGE OF MICROBIOMES. The microbiome can be considered as an extension of the host genome. Microbiomes associated with above-ground (phyllosphere), below-ground (rhizosphere) and internal (endosphere) tissues of the same plant are distinct. Also, microbiomes occupying the same niche of different plants can be very different, particularly when the microbiome is viewed at fine taxonomic levels such as genus, species and strain." https://lnkd.in/e_jsyuZ View in LinkedIn

SOIL MICROBIOME AND SUSTAINABILITY. "At the system level, the microbiome plays an integral role in virtually all soil processes, such that microbial abundance, activity and composition will largely determine sustainable productivity of agricultural land." https://lnkd.in/e4AX4yB View in LinkedIn