Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume Crops
Climate change is likely to have severe impacts on food security in the topics as these regions of the world have both the highest human populations and narrower climatic niches, which reduce the diversity of suitable crops. Legume crops are of particular importance to food security, supplying dieta...
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| author | Wan Teng Loo Kah-Ooi Chua Purabi Mazumdar Acga Cheng Normaniza Osman Jennifer Ann Harikrishna |
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| description | Climate change is likely to have severe impacts on food security in the topics as these regions of the world have both the highest human populations and narrower climatic niches, which reduce the diversity of suitable crops. Legume crops are of particular importance to food security, supplying dietary protein for humans both directly and in their use for feed and forage. Other than the rhizobia associated with legumes, soil microbes, in particular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), can mitigate the effects of biotic and abiotic stresses, offering an important complementary measure to protect crop yields. This review presents current knowledge on AMF, highlights their beneficial role, and explores the potential for application of AMF in mitigating abiotic and biotic challenges for tropical legumes. Due to the relatively little study on tropical legume species compared to their temperate growing counterparts, much further research is needed to determine how similar AMF–plant interactions are in tropical legumes, which AMF species are optimal for agricultural deployment and especially to identify anaerobic AMF species that could be used to mitigate flood stress in tropical legume crop farming. These opportunities for research also require international cooperation and support, to realize the promise of tropical legume crops to contribute to future food security. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5dc053604af242ab9d71782fbb2ded112023-11-24T06:24:30ZengMDPI AGPlants2223-77472022-10-011121287510.3390/plants11212875Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume CropsWan Teng Loo0Kah-Ooi Chua1Purabi Mazumdar2Acga Cheng3Normaniza Osman4Jennifer Ann Harikrishna5Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, MalaysiaCentre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, MalaysiaCentre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, MalaysiaInstitute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, MalaysiaInstitute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, MalaysiaCentre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, MalaysiaClimate change is likely to have severe impacts on food security in the topics as these regions of the world have both the highest human populations and narrower climatic niches, which reduce the diversity of suitable crops. Legume crops are of particular importance to food security, supplying dietary protein for humans both directly and in their use for feed and forage. Other than the rhizobia associated with legumes, soil microbes, in particular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), can mitigate the effects of biotic and abiotic stresses, offering an important complementary measure to protect crop yields. This review presents current knowledge on AMF, highlights their beneficial role, and explores the potential for application of AMF in mitigating abiotic and biotic challenges for tropical legumes. Due to the relatively little study on tropical legume species compared to their temperate growing counterparts, much further research is needed to determine how similar AMF–plant interactions are in tropical legumes, which AMF species are optimal for agricultural deployment and especially to identify anaerobic AMF species that could be used to mitigate flood stress in tropical legume crop farming. These opportunities for research also require international cooperation and support, to realize the promise of tropical legume crops to contribute to future food security.https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/21/2875abiotic stressarbuscular mycorrhizaebiotic stressfood securityGlomeromycotaLeguminosae |
| spellingShingle | Wan Teng Loo Kah-Ooi Chua Purabi Mazumdar Acga Cheng Normaniza Osman Jennifer Ann Harikrishna Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume Crops Plants abiotic stress arbuscular mycorrhizae biotic stress food security Glomeromycota Leguminosae |
| title | Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume Crops |
| title_full | Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume Crops |
| title_fullStr | Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume Crops |
| title_full_unstemmed | Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume Crops |
| title_short | Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Legume Crops |
| title_sort | arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis a strategy for mitigating the impacts of climate change on tropical legume crops |
| topic | abiotic stress arbuscular mycorrhizae biotic stress food security Glomeromycota Leguminosae |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/21/2875 |
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