1. The Current and Future Role of Microbial Culture Collections in Food Security Worldwide
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Carmen María Félix Pablos, Lilian Alejandra Salcedo Gastelum, Joydeep Mukherjee, Sergio de los Santos-Villalobos, Mariana Puente, Gustavo Santoyo, Alondra María Díaz-Rodríguez, Dhruba Bhattacharya, and Fannie Isela Parra-Cota
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Promotores del Crecimiento Vegetal ,Natural resource economics ,Climate Change ,Population ,Microbial Inoculants ,Agentes de Control Biológico ,lcsh:TX341-641 ,Horticulture ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Microbial ecology ,Sustainable agriculture ,Population growth ,education ,Inoculantes Microbianos ,plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPM) ,agriculture ,education.field_of_study ,Global and Planetary Change ,Food security ,lcsh:TP368-456 ,Ecology ,business.industry ,Agricultura ,Plant Growth-promoting Microorganisms ,Agriculture ,sustainability ,Sostenibilidad ,climate chage ,lcsh:Food processing and manufacture ,030104 developmental biology ,Biological Control Agents ,Sustainability ,Cambio Climático ,Food processing ,business ,biological control agents (BCAs) ,microbial inoculants ,lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,010606 plant biology & botany ,Food Science - Abstract
Food security is the pillar of nutritional wellbeing for food availability, and is necessary to satisfy all physiological needs to thus maintain the general wellbeing of populations. However, global agricultural deficiencies occur due to rapid population growth, causing an increase in competition for resources; such as water, land, and energy, leading to the overexploitation of agro-ecosystems, and the inability to produce a suitable quantity of efficient food. Therefore, the development of sustainable agro-biotechnologies is vital to increase crop yield and quality, reducing the negative impacts caused by intensive non-sustainable agricultural practices. In this way, the genetic and metabolic diversity of soil and plant microbiota in agro-ecosystems are a current and promising alternative to ensure global food security. Microbial communities play an important role in the improvement of soil fertility and plant development by enhancing plant growth and health through several direct and/or indirect mechanisms. Thus, the bio-augmentation of beneficial microbes into agro-ecosystems not only generates an increase in food production but also mitigates the economic, social, and environmental issues of intensive non-sustainable agriculture. In this way, the isolation, characterization, and exploitation of preserved beneficial microbes in microbial culture collections (MCC) is crucial for the ex situ maintenance of native soil microbial ecology focused on driving sustainable food production. This review aims to provide a critical analysis of the current and future role of global MCC on sustainable food security, as providers of a large number of beneficial microbial strains with multiple metabolic and genetic traits. Instituto de Microbiología y Zoología Agrícola (IMYZA) Fil: Díaz-Rodríguez, Alondra María. Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora. Departamento de Ciencias Agronómicas y Veterinarias; México Fil: Salcedo Gastelum, Lilian Alejandra. Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora. Departamento de Ciencias Agronómicas y Veterinarias; México Fil: Félix Pablos, Carmen María. Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora. Departamento de Ciencias Agronómicas y Veterinarias; México Fil: Parra-Cota, Fannie Isela. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias. Campo Experimental Norman E. Borlaug; México Fil: Santoyo, Gustavo. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Instituto de Investigaciones Químico Biológicas; México Fil: Puente, Mariana Laura. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Microbiología y Zoología Agrícola. Laboratorio de Bacterias Promotoras del Crecimiento Vegetal; Argentina Fil: Bhattacharya, Dhruba. Jadavpur University. School of Environmental Studies; India Fil: Mukherjee, Joydeep. Jadavpur University. School of Environmental Studies; India Fil: de los Santos-Villalobos, Sergio. Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora. Departamento de Ciencias Agronómicas y Veterinarias; México
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- 2021
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