ReviewHeliyon2022
Practical limitations of bioaugmentation in treating heavy metal contaminated soil and role of plant growth promoting bacteria in phytoremediation as a promising alternative approach.
Review in Heliyon, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Role of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria in Reshaping Rhizosphere Bacterial and Fungal Microbiomes Under Multi-Metal-Microplastic Composite Pollution in Spinach.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Isolation of Siderophore-Producing Bacteria from Extreme Environments and Their Role in Improving Maize Salinity-Alkalinity Tolerance.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Machine learning approaches for data-driven hydrocarbon bioaugmentation and phytoremediation: the role of multi-omics insights.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Enhancing maize yield and antioxidant capacity with glyphosate-resilient rhizobacteria in glyphosate contaminated soil.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
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- Mitigating toxic metals contamination in foods: Bridging knowledge gaps for addressing food safety.Trends in food science & technology · 2024Article
- Exogenous silicon alleviates aluminum stress in Eucalyptus species by enhancing the antioxidant capacity and improving plant growth and tolerance quality.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
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- A review of the treatment technologies for hexavalent chromium contaminated water.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2023Review
- Maximizing diesel removal from contaminated sand usingHeliyon · 2023Article
- The Potential of Bioaugmentation-Assisted Phytoremediation Derived Maize Biomass for the Production of Biomethane via Anaerobic Digestion.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Clean-Up of Heavy Metals from Contaminated Soil by Phytoremediation: A Multidisciplinary and Eco-Friendly Approach.Toxics · 2023Review
- Phyto-microbiome to mitigate abiotic stress in crop plants.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Enhanced leachate phytodetoxification test combined with plants and rhizobacteria bioaugmentation.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Bioinoculants as mitigators of multiple stresses: A ray of hope for agriculture in the darkness of climate change.Heliyon · 2022Review
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Abstract
Bioaugmentation, the addition of cultured microorganisms to enhance the currently existing microbial community, is an option to remediate contaminated areas. Several studies reported the success of the bioaugmentation method in treating heavy metal contaminated soil, but concerns related to the applicability of this method in real-scale application were raised. A comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms of heavy metal treatment by microbes (especially bacteria) and the concerns related to the possible application in the real scale were juxtaposed to show the weakness of the claim. This review proposes the use of bioaugmentation-assisted phytoremediation in treating heavy metal contaminated soil. The performance of bioaugmentation-assisted phytoremediation in treating heavy metal contaminated soil as well as the mechanisms of removal and interactions between plants and microbes are also discussed in detail. Bioaugmentation-assisted phytoremediation shows greater efficiencies and performs complete metal removal from soil compared with only bioaugmentation. Research related to selection of hyperaccumulator species, potential microbial species, analysis of interaction mechanisms, and potential usage of treating plant biomass after treatment are suggested as future research directions to enhance this currently proposed topic.
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