Solutions in microbiome engineering: Prioritizing barriers to organism establishment
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Abstract
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.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Solutions in microbiome engineering: Prioritizing barriers to organism establishment |
| Series title | The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41396-021-01088-5 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Nature |
| Contributing office(s) | Southwest Biological Science Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| First page | 331 |
| Last page | 338 |
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