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    The UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank project will establish a cryopreserved resource and database of microbiome samples from six major UK crops. This will support research on optimizing crop health and yields through sustainable agricultural approaches. The project is led by CABI and involves academic partners. It will collect, characterize and cryopreserve microbiome samples until 2025, making data and materials available to researchers through the AgMicrobiome Base database. The goal is to facilitate development of biological solutions for agriculture through a publicly accessible crop microbiome resource.

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    The UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank project will establish a cryopreserved resource and database of microbiome samples from six major UK crops. This will support research on optimizing crop health and yields through sustainable agricultural approaches. The project is led by CABI and involves academic partners. It will collect, characterize and cryopreserve microbiome samples until 2025, making data and materials available to researchers through the AgMicrobiome Base database. The goal is to facilitate development of biological solutions for agriculture through a publicly accessible crop microbiome resource.

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    The UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank project will establish a cryopreserved resource and database of microbiome samples from six major UK crops. This will support research on optimizing crop health and yields through sustainable agricultural approaches. The project is led by CABI and involves academic partners. It will collect, characterize and cryopreserve microbiome samples until 2025, making data and materials available to researchers through the AgMicrobiome Base database. The goal is to facilitate development of biological solutions for agriculture through a publicly accessible crop microbiome resource.

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    THE UK CROP MICROBIOME

    CRYOBANK

    Locations United Kingdom

    Dates 01/10/2020 - 30/09/2025

    Summary
    Plant microbiomes are the microbial communities essential to the whole
    ecological area of a plant’s ‘phytobiome’ – a term used to describe a plant’s
    specific ecological area. Having a healthy phytobiome is critical to crop health,
    improved crop yields and quality food. However, crop microbiomes are relatively
    under-researched. The UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank project will develop a
    unique, exploitable and integrated resource that will provide the biological and
    bioinformatic tools to enable the development of solutions to improve soil and
    crop health. Six of the UK’s key crops will be the focus and usable outputs will
    underpin UK research activity in line with the Biotechnology and Biological
    Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) strategic priorities in agriculture and food
    security. The project will support three of the UN’s Sustainable-Development
    Goals: Zero Hunger, Responsible Consumption, and Production and Life on
    Land.

    The problem A microbiome is the community of micro-organisms that live together in a


    particular ecosystem. Humans, animals and plants all have their own unique
    microbiomes.
    The plant microbiome is the microbial communities associated with plants, soils
    and fauna and can be considered as an essential component of the functional
    ‘phytobiome’ – a term used to describe a plant’s specific ecological niche (the
    plant itself, the environment and its micro and macro-organisms living on and
    around the plant). A healthy ‘phytobiome’ is essential for crop health and the
    need to improve yields and nutritional quality.

    Whilst we understand the importance of healthy microbial communities for better


    crop health, research and studies carried out on what has been published is
    uncoordinated and fragmented and, as a result, there are no ‘crop microbiome’
    resources publicly available. This leads to the problem of research that cannot be
    verified and a lack of resources to facilitate further research or the development
    of new biological solutions for Agritech.

    Having the right tools and resources available will help safeguard future research
    and facilitate the sustainable production of the UK’s key food crops. They will
    support researchers in their work and provide industry with what they need to
    develop biological alternatives to chemical interventions in farming systems.

    What we are doing The UK Crop Microbiome CryoBank (UK-CMCB) project will provide a
    comprehensive bank of cultures, resources and information to help facilitate
    research into optimizing plant yields using a sustainable agricultural approach.

    As a lead on this project, CABI will manage the research project, cryopreserve
    the samples and host the CryoBank. We will also coordinate the establishment of
    the publicly available AgMicrobiome Base.

    The project will establish a cryopreserved and characterized crop microbiome


    resource to underpin UK and international crop research, building on the UK
    Agritech capability provided through the Centre for Crop Health and Protection
    (CHAP).

    The resource will provide a facility for researchers to source data and samples
    for their work, including living microbial material from the rhizoplane and genomic
    sequences from different microbiome environments (as axenic cultures,
    microbiome samples and in 96 well plates).

    This will enable soil scientists and plant researchers to assess and compare their
    work against validated datasets generated by the project.

    The focus will be on the microbiomes of six major UK crops (barley, oats, oil
    seed rape, potato, sugar beet and wheat) from three different soil types obtained
    from across the UK.

    The CryoBank will also be of interest to the general public. Through CABI and
    the projects’ partners, research will be presented to the public as well as ways in
    which they can engage with this unique resource.

    Results so far The key projected outputs of the UK-CMCB project will include:

    A cryopreserved resource of characterized material from crop


    microbiomes with a prioritized collection strategy, consisting of fungi,
    bacteria and ‘whole’ microbiome samples. Frozen samples will also be
    made publicly available through the CABI database and linked to genomic
    data
    Robust methodologies, which will be available to researchers, for
    collection and storage of intact microbial communities in environmental
    samples and extracts of total DNA
    Using ‘state-of-the-art’ cryopreservation technology to develop advanced
    cryopreservation regimes which will enhance the capability of sustainably
    maintaining the resource in a genotypically and phenotypically stable state
    Genomic characterization of samples for assessing microbial diversity
    (including symbionts, endophytes, pathogens), from whole community
    taxonomies (bacteria, fungi, viruses) to individual isolate genomes, will be
    undertaken
    Finding new biological-based products for the Agritech industry which will
    be demonstrated to the user community and will take advantage of Plant
    Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) isolation and synthetic
    community construction
    A validated sequence resources database, ‘AgMicrobiome Base’ linked to
    European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) tools and data and available to the
    Agritech sector and researchers, including model organisms and novel
    product outputs.

    The resource will begin to be made available during the first year of the project. It
    will then expand throughout the duration of the project.

    AgMicrobiome Base will be made available in late Spring 2021.

    Updates on the project can be found via Twitter (@PMicrobiome) and the
    scientific literature.

    Donors Biotechnology and Biotechnology Sciences Research Council - UK Research


    Innovation

    Partners Rothamsted Research (Dr Tim Mauchline), Scotland’s Rural College (Prof Nicola
    Holden), John Innes Centre (Dr Jake Malone), James Hutton Institute (Dr Sue
    Jones)

    CABI Project Manager Matthew Ryan

    https://www.cabi.org/what-we-do/cabi-
    projects/

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