Next generation tools for crop‐microbiome manipulation to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Other phytohormones or phytohormone-like molecules produced by plants or microbes that act as plant growth and immune regulators and defence hormones also carry great potential to be used in crop microbiome manipulation for climate change adaptation. These tools will likely focus initially on employing metabolites, including volatile compounds, or even small RNAs, involved in plant-microbe/microbe-microbe crosstalk that have likely played a role in the adaptative evolution of the holobiont to many environmental selection pressures (Padje et al., [25]; Yan & Ham, [39]). MANIPULATING CROP MICROBIOME IN SITU USING PLANT-MICROBE COMMUNICATION AND METABOLITES The plant rhizosphere is a critical interface where plant roots interact intimately with soil microbial communities. The application of microbial inoculants is a way to manipulate the plant microbiome in situ, even if only temporarily, as it aims to increase the abundance of beneficial biocontrol and/or plant growth-promoting microbes. [Extracted from the article]