Tiny Microbes, Big Yields: enhancing food crop production with biological solutions

Tiny Microbes, Big Yields: enhancing food crop production with biological solutions

Plant-associated microbiomes have tremendous potential to improve plant resilience and yields in farming systems. There is increasing evidence that biological technologies that use microbes or their metabolites can enhance nutrient uptake and yield, control pests and mitigate plant stress responses. However, to fully realize the potential of microbial technology, their efficacy and consistency ...

Thematic Issue on Biofilms: Microbial Works of Art

SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Tiny microbes, big yields: enhancing food crop production with biological solutions P. Trivedi, P. M. Schenks, M. D. Wallenstein and B. K. Singh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 Increased nutritional value in food crops N. Goicoechea and M. C. An...

Tiny Medicine, Big World

Thinking Big About Tiny Databases

Work on early tiny database systems, like TinyDB [17] and Cougar [23] has shown that a declarative approach can provide a powerful and easy to use interface for collecting data from static sensor networks. These early systems, however, have significant limitations; in particular, they are useful only for low-rate data collection applications on static sensor networks and they don’t integrate we...

Boosting crop yields with plant steroids.

Plant sterols and steroid hormones, the brassinosteroids (BRs), are compounds that exert a wide range of biological activities. They are essential for plant growth, reproduction, and responses to various abiotic and biotic stresses. Given the importance of sterols and BRs in these processes, engineering their biosynthetic and signaling pathways offers exciting potentials for enhancing crop yiel...