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Looking forward includes looking back every now and then.In 2007,David Weller looked back at 30 years of biocontrol of soil-borne pathogens by Pseudomonas and signified that the progress made over decades of research has provided a firm foundation to formulate current and future research questions.It has been recognized for more than a century that soil-borne microbes play a significant role in plant growth and health.The recent application of high-throughput omics technologies has enabled detailed dissection of the microbial players and molecular mechanisms involved in the complex interactions in plant-associated microbiomes.Here,we highlight old and emerging plant microbiome concepts related to plant disease control,and address perspectives that modern and emerging microbiomics technologies can bring to functionally characterize and exploit plant-associated microbiomes for the benefit of plant health in future microbiome-assisted agriculture.