Chapter 24 - Plant-microbe interactions in wheat to deal with abiotic stress

Abstract

The interaction between plants and microbes is an interesting and worth exploring issue, and abiotic stress is an important factor affecting the interaction. Abiotic stress can greatly affect the growth and development of crops, thereby negatively affecting food production and threatening the survival and development of human beings. Wheat is one of the important crops. With the continuous deterioration of the global ecological environment, many stress factors such as drought, high salt, and heavy metal pollution have reduced the yield and quality of wheat. Using the interaction between plants and microbes, and excavating beneficial microbes to interact with wheat, has positive effects such as enhancing stress resistance and promoting growth, which can provide solutions for ensuring wheat yield and quality under abiotic stress. This chapter started with the ubiquitous interaction between plants and microbes and the abiotic stress resistance brought by this interaction to plants, further revealed the plant-microbe interactions in wheat to deal with abiotic stress and its molecular mechanisms, the source of the microbes, the interaction of wheat-microbe-abiotic stress and finally introduced the application of omics in the study of the interaction between microbes and wheat. It provides clues and lays a theoretical foundation for the future exploration of antistress microbial inoculants for wheat planting, ensuring wheat yield and quality, and is of great significance to wheat production under the deteriorating global ecological environment.