Dysbiotic microbiomes and the collapse of plant health.

Dysbiosis of plant microbiomes impairs plant health and can be reversed through targeted microbial interventions, affecting systemic processes like immunity and nutrient uptake.

• Why it matters: Understanding plant dysbiosis is crucial because it parallels human gut microbiome disruptions that cause host dysfunction, yet its mechanisms and solutions in plants remain underexplored.
• What they did: The study reviews current knowledge, introduces a three-tiered framework combining profiling, functional omics, and host assessment, and discusses strategies like microbiome-informed breeding and synthetic communities involving over 100 microbial strains.
• The result: This approach enables precise measurement and correction of dysbiosis, paving the way for practical crop management techniques that enhance resilience and restore plant health through microbiome manipulation.