holobiont
A holobiont refers to a plant host together with all the microorganisms living in and around it — including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other symbionts — considered as a single, integrated biological unit. This concept is reshaping plant science by highlighting that a plant's health, development, and stress responses cannot be fully understood by studying the plant genome alone, but must account for the collective genomic and metabolic contributions of its entire microbial community. Understanding plant holobionts opens new avenues for improving crop resilience and productivity by manipulating the microbiome alongside the plant itself.
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