Description du projet
Perspectives et interventions en faveur de la résilience des sols et des cultures dans le contexte du changement climatique
La crise climatique mondiale met en danger des services écosystémiques vitaux et perturbe la sécurité alimentaire. Elle a placé la planète à un tournant critique. Les communautés microbiennes, ou microbiome, essentielles à la rétroaction du climat et au maintien de la santé des sols et des plantes, sont confrontées à des menaces sans précédent. Lorsque ces microbiomes luttent, notre capacité à créer des systèmes résistants est mise à l’épreuve. Dans ce contexte, le projet MicroRescue, financé par le CER, se propose de récupérer et réactiver les micro-organismes dormants afin de contrer les effets néfastes du changement climatique sur les écosystèmes et garantir un avenir durable. En appréhendant et en prévoyant la capacité des micro-organismes dormants à sauver les microbiomes, le projet développera des stratégies de résilience pour les plantes. Ses expériences multifactorielles placent MicroRescue à l’avant-garde des amendements microbiologiques et de l’ingénierie du microbiome de l’hôte.
Objectif
Earth’s climate crisis threatens to disrupt ecosystem services and destabilize food security. Communities of microorganisms, called microbiomes, provide critical functions that feedback on climate and support soil and plant health. I propose a new framework, Microbiome Rescue, to recover microbial populations and lost functions after disturbances. With critical knowledge about the ecology of microbiomes and their contributions to creating resilient systems, I propose that we can achieve a paradigm shift in ecosystem management via directed microbiome interventions. Here, I focus on elaborating rescue strategies that leverage the selective reactivation of dormant microbes. Because microbial dormancy is extensive in soil and the rhizosphere, reactivation offers access to untapped biodiversity and provides immediate solutions for maintaining functions in ecosystems affected by climate change. My first objective is to understand and predict the capacity of dormant soil microorganisms to rescue microbiomes in a changing climate and discover reactivated bacteria that facilitate resilience. My second objective is to investigate and develop bacterial reactivation for rescue-based microbiome management to support plant resilience to climate change stressors and preserve plant-soil feedback. To achieve these goals, I will execute three multi-factor experiments to reactivate the dormant microbiome from soil and plant systems after exposure to heat and moisture stress. First I will perform a heat and moisture experiment for European soils, assess risk, and curate microbial collections that support functional rescue. Next I will perform two practical rescue experiments for the microbiomes of legumes exposed to heat and moisture stress: customized microbiological amendments and host-microbiome engineering. This work will provide unprecedented insights into microbiome rescue and identify targets for biological interventions to support soil and crop resilience to climate change.
Champ scientifique
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagronomyplant protection
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriology
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
75794 Paris
France