Harnessing microbiome-based biotechnologies for sustainable mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions

Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He, Brajesh K. Singh

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Abstract

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of climate change mitigation within this century will require adoption of new innovative technologies to control emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), an important greenhouse gas leading to global warming. This is particularly important in the face of growing fertilizer consumption and continuous land degradation. Currently used tools to mitigate N2O emissions are based on agrochemical inputs and agronomic practices. Emerging technologies include plant breeding approaches to manipulate microbiome activities in agro-ecosystems, and microbial biotechnology approaches for in situ microbiome manipulation and engineering via use of biochemical, cellular and genome-editing methods. This article assessed the likely contribution of microbial biotechnology to the mitigation of N2O emissions and discussed how to facilitate the development of environmental-friendly microbiome-based biotechnology for sustainable climate change mitigation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1226-1231
Number of pages6
JournalMicrobial Biotechnology
Volume10
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Open Access - Access Right Statement

© 2017 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

  • atmospheric nitrous oxide
  • climate change mitigation
  • greenhouse gas mitigation
  • microbial biotechnology

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