Microbial Transplantation from High-Productivity Soil to Improve Plant Performance in a Less Productive Farmland

Microbial transplantation represents a sustainable strategy to address productivity gaps in agricultural soils by transferring microbiomes that enhance nutrient cycling, pathogen suppression, and stress tolerance. This study evaluated whether probiotic consortia from high-yield soybean soils (donor soil) could improve crop performance in less-productive fields (recipient soil).