AGRIBIOME

The main goals of AGRIBIOME are to (i) identify microbial hubs (highly connected taxa in microbial networks) regulated by plant genotype while mitigating biotic stresses, (ii) develop molecular markers for plant traits associated with recruitment of beneficial microbes, (iii) establish a new generation of plant probiotics that predictably and consistently enhance crop resilience and (iv) utilize knowledge on microbiome engineering to predict crop disease resistance towards holobiont-based breeding programmes. AGRIBIOME started in 2020 by genotyping a panel of 254 pea lines. These pea lines had previously been phenotyped for their resistance towards root rot when grown in infested field soil under controlled conditions.