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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016

Bacterial Endophytes Isolated from Plants in Natural Oil Seep Soils with Chronic Hydrocarbon Contamination.

Rhea Lumactud, Shu Yi Shen, Mimas Lau, Roberta Fulthorpe

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Rhea LumactudDepartment of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough Toronto, ON, Canada.
Shu Yi ShenDepartment of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough Toronto, ON, Canada.
Mimas LauDepartment of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough Toronto, ON, Canada.
Roberta FulthorpeDepartment of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough Toronto, ON, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bacterial endophytic communities of four plants growing abundantly in soils highly contaminated by hydrocarbons were analyzed through culturable and culture-independent means. Given their tolerance to the high levels of petroleum contamination at our study site, we sought evidence that Achillea millefolium, Solidago canadensis, Trifolium aureum, and Dactylis glomerata support high levels of hydrocarbon degrading endophytes. A total of 190 isolates were isolated from four plant species. The isolates were identified by partial 16S rDNA sequence analysis, with class Actinobacteria as the dominant group in all species except S. canadensis, which was dominated by Gammaproteobacteria. Microbacterium foliorum and Plantibacter flavus were present in all the plants, with M. foliorum showing predominance in D. glomerata and both endophytic bacterial species dominated T. aureum. More than 50% of the isolates demonstrated degradative capabilities for octanol, toluene, naphthalene, kerosene, or motor oil based on sole carbon source growth screens involving the reduction of tetrazolium dye. P. flavus isolates from all the sampled plants showed growth on all the petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) substrates tested. Mineralization of toluene and naphthalene was confirmed using gas-chromatography. 16S based terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis revealed significant differences between the endophytic bacterial communities showing them to be plant host specific at this site. To our knowledge, this is the first account of the degradation potential of bacterial endophytes in these commonly occurring pioneer plants that were not previously known as phytoremediating plants.

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endophytic bacteriahydrocarbon degradationphytoremediation

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PMCPMC4878295

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