Bacterial strains are not distributed evenly throughout the environment. Here I explore how differential distribution and dispersal patterns of bacteria could affect interactions and coevolutionary dynamics with plants, and highlight ways that variation could be taken advantage of to develop robust and effective microbial consortia to inoculate crops. Questions about biogeographical patterns in viruses, fungi, and other eukaryotes are equally as prevalent and important for agriculture, and are in some cases more thoroughly explored. For simplicity as well as to bring attention to bacterial biogeography and dispersal in the context of plant interactions, I focus solely on bacterial patterns and questions for this article. The next few years will no doubt bring great advances in our understanding of dispersal capabilities and population dynamics for many plant-associated bacteria, and one of the next looming challenges will be learning to harvest this diversity in ways that can benefit agriculture.

细菌菌株在整个环境中分布不均。在这里，我探讨了细菌的差异分布和扩散方式如何影响与植物的相互作用和协同进化动力学，并重点介绍了可以利用变异来发展健壮有效的微生物群落来接种农作物的方法。关于病毒，真菌和其他真核生物中生物地理模式的问题对于农业同样普遍且重要，并且在某些情况下会进行更彻底的探讨。为了简单起见，并引起人们对植物相互作用中细菌生物地理学和传播的关注，我仅关注本文的细菌模式和问题。