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Plant-associated microbiota act as an extrinsic regulatory layer that modulates host epigenetic states to prime plants for compound stress.
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e2“plant-associated microbiota serve as an extrinsic regulatory layer, modulating host epigenetic states to prime plants for compound stress”
Title
Riyaz Sayyed; Mohammed Al-zharani; Mohammed Mubarak; et al. Journal of Applied Microbiology 2026. doi:10.1093/jambio/lxag149
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- Observation Combined stresses trigger distinct transcriptomic and metabolic signatures in plants, according to the meta-synthesis.
- Mechanism Stress-induced transcriptomic and metabolic signatures are stabilized by an epigenetic toolkit such as RNA-directed DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling.
- Observation Epigenetic editing, CRISPR-mediated epigenome editing and microbiome engineering show promise, but their field-scale stability remains context-dependent.
- Recommendation Building climate resilience requires a paradigm shift from single-trait breeding toward multi-scale regulatory approaches.
- Recommendation Harnessing the plant epigenome and microbiome synergy is proposed as a route to 'primed' crop varieties.