The Current and Future Role of Microbial Culture Collections in Food Security Worldwide

Food security is the pillar of nutritional wellbeing for food availability, and necessary to satisfy all physiological needs thus maintain general populations. However, global agricultural deficiencies occur due rapid population growth, causing an increase in competition resources; such as water, land, energy, leading overexploitation agro-ecosystems, inability produce a suitable quantity efficient food. Therefore, development sustainable agro-biotechnologies vital crop yield quality, reducing negative impacts caused by intensive non-sustainable practices. In this way, genetic metabolic diversity soil plant microbiota agro-ecosystems are current promising alternative ensure security. Microbial communities play important role improvement fertility enhancing growth health through several direct and/or indirect mechanisms. Thus, bio-augmentation beneficial microbes into not only generates production but also mitigates economic, social, environmental issues agriculture. isolation, characterization, exploitation preserved microbial culture collections (MCC) crucial ex situ maintenance native ecology focused on driving production. This review aims provide critical analysis future MCC security, providers large number strains with multiple traits.