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Chapter 7
Conclusion and Future Perspectives
Abstract Harnessing the potential of the microbiome can provide cleaner and
greener solutions to various environmental challenges. Globally, microbiome
research is a continuously evolving field, with researchers aiming to explore the
structural and functional characteristics of the microbiomes in various environmental compartments. Still, there are various system-level knowledge gaps in microbiome research. Therefore, unravelling the complex and dynamic microbial crosstalk
in the soil system and the multitrophic interactions will certainly provide new impetus for harnessing the real potential of the soil microbiome for multipurpose environmental benefits.
Keywords Environmental challenges · Functional microbiome · Knowledge gap ·
Multitrophic interactions
7.1 Conclusion
A major part of underground microbial life needs exploration, identification, and
characterization. Soil microbial communities are important assets for all type of
ecosystems that help in myriads of soil processes such as biogeochemical cycling,
nutrient turnover, soil respiration, and various other soil–atmosphere feedbacks by
regulating its community structure, functional attributes, substrate specificity, and
hormonal and enzymatic profile (Dubey et al. 2016b). The warming climate also
presents many aboveground and belowground changes in soil organic matter, root
exudation, microbial community structure, pest- and pathogen-mediated disease
incidence, plant species diversity, and distribution, etc. Therefore, in-depth knowledge about the structure and functions of the microbial community and its underlying processes is needed now and will certainly provide sustainable solutions for the
global food, feed, fiber, and energy demands of the rapidly growing population
under changing climatic conditions. This huge microbial world has an enormous
role in sustaining plant and human life on planet Earth through improving soil quality, plant disease tolerance, agricultural yield and nutritional quality, restoration
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
R. K. Dubey et al., Unravelling the Soil Microbiome, SpringerBriefs in
Environmental Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15516-2_7
Chapter 7
Conclusion and Future Perspectives
Abstract Harnessing the potential of the microbiome can provide cleaner and
greener solutions to various environmental challenges. Globally, microbiome
research is a continuously evolving field, with researchers aiming to explore the
structural and functional characteristics of the microbiomes in various environmental compartments. Still, there are various system-level knowledge gaps in microbiome research. Therefore, unravelling the complex and dynamic microbial crosstalk
in the soil system and the multitrophic interactions will certainly provide new impetus for harnessing the real potential of the soil microbiome for multipurpose environmental benefits.
Keywords Environmental challenges · Functional microbiome · Knowledge gap ·
Multitrophic interactions
7.1 Conclusion
A major part of underground microbial life needs exploration, identification, and
characterization. Soil microbial communities are important assets for all type of
ecosystems that help in myriads of soil processes such as biogeochemical cycling,
nutrient turnover, soil respiration, and various other soil–atmosphere feedbacks by
regulating its community structure, functional attributes, substrate specificity, and
hormonal and enzymatic profile (Dubey et al. 2016b). The warming climate also
presents many aboveground and belowground changes in soil organic matter, root
exudation, microbial community structure, pest- and pathogen-mediated disease
incidence, plant species diversity, and distribution, etc. Therefore, in-depth knowledge about the structure and functions of the microbial community and its underlying processes is needed now and will certainly provide sustainable solutions for the
global food, feed, fiber, and energy demands of the rapidly growing population
under changing climatic conditions. This huge microbial world has an enormous
role in sustaining plant and human life on planet Earth through improving soil quality, plant disease tolerance, agricultural yield and nutritional quality, restoration