Engineering insect-microbe symbiosis: synthetic microbial communities for sustainable insect management.

Insect-microbe symbiosis enables innovative modulation of insect biology via gut microbiota engineering. Synthetic microbial communities enhance pathogen resistance, nutrient provisioning, and host fitness. Engineering components of insect microbiomes enables precise manipulation of insect-microbe dynamics, advancing ecofriendly pest control and beneficial insect conservation while addressing biosafety and stability challenges.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Trends in Parasitology

• Publication date

  2025-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.pt.2025.06.003PMID 40582907
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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