Proteomic impacts of fertilization in crop plants: bridging molecular insights and sustainable agriculture
摘要
Optimizing crop production under shifting climate baselines requires transitioning from empirical fertilization to molecularly informed, precision nutrient management. While traditional agronomy evaluates fertilizer efficacy via macroscopic morpho-physiological traits, the underlying sub-cellular mechanisms remain poorly integrated into field practices. This review synthesizes the comparative crop proteomic landscapes shaped by synthetic versus organic fertilization regimes. We map how chemical inputs trigger localized nutrient “foraging” and metabolic surges, contrasting with organic amendments that function as complex phytoactivators stabilizing photosynthetic centers, priming antioxidant defences, and inducing systemic resistance through rhizosphere-microbiome cross-talk. Crucially, this review moves beyond descriptive summaries to critically expose systemic knowledge gaps within the literature: the historical omission of novel circular-economy substrates like insect frass, spatial sampling biases, and the quantitative discordance between mRNA transcripts and functional protein concentrations. Furthermore, we address the computational annotation bottleneck where up to 46% of highly significant, stress-responsive proteins remain uncharacterized in non-model crops. Finally, we explore the horizon of Agriculture 4.0, detailing how high-throughput proteomics can be coupled with parallel omics layers (transcriptomics, metabolomics, phenomics) and driven by advanced artificial intelligence frameworks such as AlphaFold, FUJISAN, and MIND-S to model post-translational cross-talk and predict functional networks. Ultimately, this molecular resolution provides a crucial toolkit for researchers and policymakers to curate high-efficiency, climate-ready crop cultivars, driving a sustainable, closed-loop agricultural revolution through collaborative cross-sector partnerships.