Intensive agriculture requires large inputs of chemicals to avoid losses caused by pathogen infections. Exploring the rhizosphere of plants, which is an area with enormous abundance and diversity of microorganisms, represents a promising strategy to protect plants from pathogens in a sustainable way. Recent studies revealed the importance of soil microbiome in the process of natural plant defense and how current management practices can interfere in the dynamics of these microbial communities shaping a protective microbiome. This review emphasizes the main findings related to changes in rhizosphere microbiome composition and functions during plant infection by soilborne pathogens. Understanding plant-microbiome interactions in the rhizosphere is key to develop microbiome-based strategies for assembling beneficial protective resident microbial communities in production systems.

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根际微生物组：在植物保护中的功能、动力学和作用

集约化农业需要大量的化学品投入，以避免病原体感染造成的损失。探索植物根际，这是一个微生物丰富多样的地区，代表了一种以可持续方式保护植物免受病原体侵害的有前途的策略。最近的研究揭示了土壤微生物组在天然植物防御过程中的重要性，以及当前的管理实践如何干扰这些形成保护性微生物组的微生物群落的动态。本综述强调了与土壤传播病原体感染植物期间根际微生物组组成和功能变化相关的主要发现。