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Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs), assembled from defined and functionally characterized microorganisms, offer a tractable strategy to improve plant growth and suppress disease through complementary and redundant functions. This review critically examines recent advances in plant-associated SynComs, emphasizing rational design over empirical strain mixing. We compare construction strategies based on core microbiome mining, trait-based screening, microbial interaction networks, host and niche adaptation, and multi-omics- or model-guided assembly. Available available evidence suggests that no single SynCom construction strategy is universally superior; rather, robust design requires an integrated, context-specific approach combining host- or core-microbiome-guided candidate selection, trait validation, interaction-informed assembly, and model-guided optimization. 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