The olive industry is facing considerable pressure from emerging diseases caused by various pathogens, including Xylella fastidiosa, Verticillium dahliae, and Fusarium oxysporum. This has led to increased interest in developing environmentally friendly, sustainable management strategies for these diseases through biological control and resistant rootstocks. The recent researches have emphasized the need to know the pathobiome, the complex community of microorganisms that coexists with the plant and affects its health and production. Pathobiome microorganisms may be beneficial and detrimental to the plant. In addition, the pathobiome is important to understand in order to create new varieties of olive, resistant to diseases. Although there are serious challenges, the current developments in the field of sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools are aiding in overcoming these challenges. It is important to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly methods, which take into consideration both the plant and the associated microorganisms, so as to ensure effective disease control measures and the formulation of new disease-resistant olive varieties. The review paper will inform about the importance of the pathobiome in the establishment of effective disease management strategies and indicate challenges and opportunities in the field.
Ahmed et al. (Tue,) studied this question.