Field-Specific Microbial Consortia Are Feasible: A Response to Kaminsky et al.

Kaminsky et al. ( Trends Biotechnol. 2019:37;140–151) discuss the conflicts in developing microbial inoculants for agriculture. The authors affirm that microbial inoculants should perform across a wide range of environments but rule out the feasibility of personalized inoculants for individual fields. Here, I propose customized microbial consortia for specific field environments