Open AccessSOILomics; where Microbiome Genetics meets Precision Agriculture
Author(s) -
Dimitriοs Vlachakis,
Αspasia Efthimiadou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
embnet journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2226-6089
DOI - 10.14806/ej.26.1.940
Subject(s) - agriculture , microbiome , resilience (materials science) , climate change , psychological resilience , natural resource economics , population , precision agriculture , environmental resource management , microbiology and biotechnology , geography , environmental planning , environmental science , biology , agroforestry , business , ecology , environmental health , medicine , economics , psychology , genetics , physics , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
Advances in genetics, soil biochemistry and microbiome analysis are opening up a new era in Precision Agriculture. In this direction, new techniques bring groundbreaking changes in land management practices through direct or indirect management of soil microbial communities. There is huge demand for the protection and enhancement of soil health and climate change resilience of crops. The increase in population, food consumption and fast approaching climate change pose a new threat to mankind that only by being proactive and highly prepared to deploy all novel and innovative stratagems in state-of-the-art soil microbiome precision agriculture can be avoided.