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Title: Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture

Abstract

The importance of increasing crop production while reducing resource inputs and land-use change cannot be overstated especially in light of climate change and a human population growth projected to reach nine billion this century. Here, mutualistic plant microbe interactions offer a novel approach to enhance agricultural productivity while reducing environmental costs. In concert with other novel agronomic technologies and management, plant-microbial mutualisms could help increase crop production and reduce yield losses by improving resistance and/or resilience to edaphic, biologic, and climatic variability from both bottom-up and top-down perspectives.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [3]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
  3. Chinese Academy of Forestry, Zhejiang (China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1265986
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1397535
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; AC05-06OR23100
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 216; Journal ID: ISSN 0167-8809
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; symbiosis; plant microbe interactions; mitigation; agroecology; climate change; synthetic communities; GHGe

Citation Formats

Hamilton, Cyd E., Bever, James D., Labbe, Jessy, Yang, Xiaohan, and Yin, Hengfu. Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2015.10.006.
Hamilton, Cyd E., Bever, James D., Labbe, Jessy, Yang, Xiaohan, & Yin, Hengfu. Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.10.006
Hamilton, Cyd E., Bever, James D., Labbe, Jessy, Yang, Xiaohan, and Yin, Hengfu. Tue . "Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.10.006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1265986.
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author = {Hamilton, Cyd E. and Bever, James D. and Labbe, Jessy and Yang, Xiaohan and Yin, Hengfu},
abstractNote = {The importance of increasing crop production while reducing resource inputs and land-use change cannot be overstated especially in light of climate change and a human population growth projected to reach nine billion this century. Here, mutualistic plant microbe interactions offer a novel approach to enhance agricultural productivity while reducing environmental costs. In concert with other novel agronomic technologies and management, plant-microbial mutualisms could help increase crop production and reduce yield losses by improving resistance and/or resilience to edaphic, biologic, and climatic variability from both bottom-up and top-down perspectives.},
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journal = {Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment},
number = ,
volume = 216,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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