Microbiome breeding: conceptual and practical issues.
Trends Microbiol
; 30(10): 997-1011, 2022 10.
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ABSTRACT
Microbiome breeding is a new artificial selection technique that seeks to change the genetic composition of microbiomes in order to benefit plant or animal hosts. Recent experimental and theoretical analyses have shown that microbiome breeding is possible whenever microbiome-encoded genetic factors affect host traits (e.g., health) and microbiomes are transmissible between hosts with sufficient fidelity, such as during natural microbiome transmission between individuals of social animals, or during experimental microbiome transplanting between plants. To address misunderstandings that stymie microbiome-breeding programs, we (i) clarify and visualize the corresponding elements of microbiome selection and standard selection; (ii) elucidate the eco-evolutionary processes underlying microbiome selection within a quantitative genetic framework to summarize practical guidelines that optimize microbiome breeding; and (iii) characterize the kinds of host species most amenable to microbiome breeding.
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Microbiota
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Fitomejoramiento
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
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Animals
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Trends Microbiol
Asunto de la revista:
MICROBIOLOGIA
Año:
2022
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Article