Microbial biotechnology as a tool to restore degraded drylands

Fernando T. Maestre; Ricard Solé; Brajesh K. Singh

doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12832

Microbial biotechnology as a tool to restore degraded drylands

Fernando T. Maestre^*, Ricard Solé, Brajesh K. Singh

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Abstract

We briefly review how microbial biotechnology can contribute to improve activities aiming to restore degraded drylands and to combat their desertification, which are an integral part of the Sustainable Development Goal 15 of the 2030 Agenda. Microbial biotechnology offers notable promise to improve restoration actions based on the use of biocrust-forming engineered cyanobacteria, which play key roles in maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning in drylands worldwide. Advances in our understanding of microbiome associated to biocrusts and of the signalling involved in the communication among their constituents can also potentially enhance the outcome of restoration activities in drylands.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1250-1253
Number of pages	4
Journal	Microbial Biotechnology
Volume	10
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12832
State	Published - Sep 2017

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Bioengineering
Biochemistry
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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