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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2014

Cr-resistant rhizo- and endophytic bacteria associated with Prosopis juliflora and their potential as phytoremediation enhancing agents in metal-degraded soils.

Muhammad U Khan, Angela Sessitsch, Muhammad Harris, Kaneez Fatima, Asma Imran, Muhammad Arslan, Ghulam Shabir, Qaiser M Khan, Muhammad Afzal

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors.

Muhammad U KhanEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Angela SessitschBioresources Unit, Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Tulln, Austria.
Muhammad HarrisEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Kaneez FatimaEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Asma ImranEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Muhammad ArslanEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan ; Earth Sciences Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Ghulam ShabirEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Qaiser M KhanEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Muhammad AfzalEnvironmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prosopis juliflora is characterized by distinct and profuse growth even in nutritionally poor soil and environmentally stressed conditions and is believed to harbor some novel heavy metal-resistant bacteria in the rhizosphere and endosphere. This study was performed to isolate and characterize Cr-resistant bacteria from the rhizosphere and endosphere of P. juliflora growing on the tannery effluent contaminated soil. A total of 5 and 21 bacterial strains were isolated from the rhizosphere and endosphere, respectively, and were shown to tolerate Cr up to 3000 mg l(-1). These isolates also exhibited tolerance to other toxic heavy metals such as, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn, and high concentration (174 g l(-1)) of NaCl. Moreover, most of the isolated bacterial strains showed one or more plant growth-promoting activities. The phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene showed that the predominant species included Bacillus, Staphylococcus and Aerococcus. As far as we know, this is the first report analyzing rhizo- and endophytic bacterial communities associated with P. juliflora growing on the tannery effluent contaminated soil. The inoculation of three isolates to ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) improved plant growth and heavy metal removal from the tannery effluent contaminated soil suggesting that these bacteria could enhance the establishment of the plant in contaminated soil and also improve the efficiency of phytoremediation of heavy metal-degraded soils.

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Cr-resistant bacteriaendophytic bacteriaheavy metalsphytoremediationplant growth-promoting bacteriaProsopis juliflorarhizobacteria

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PMCPMC4284999

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