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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Recent Advances in Microbial-Assisted Remediation of Cadmium-Contaminated Soil.

Usman Zulfiqar, Fasih Ullah Haider, Muhammad Faisal Maqsood, Waqas Mohy-Ud-Din, Muhammad Shabaan, Muhammad Ahmad, Muhammad Kaleem, Muhammad Ishfaq, Zoya Aslam, Babar Shahzad

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Usman ZulfiqarDepartment of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-3820-1476
Fasih Ullah HaiderKey Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2523-8803
Muhammad Faisal MaqsoodDepartment of Botany, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan.
Waqas Mohy-Ud-DinInstitute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-6663-0118
Muhammad ShabaanLand Resources Research Institute (LRRI), National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-8296-7810
Muhammad AhmadDepartment of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-8276-034X
Muhammad KaleemDepartment of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-3237-4886
Muhammad IshfaqDepartment of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-8177-6641
Zoya AslamSoil and Environmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Babar ShahzadTasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4358-3539

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil contamination with cadmium (Cd) is a severe concern for the developing world due to its non-biodegradability and significant potential to damage the ecosystem and associated services. Industries such as mining, manufacturing, building, etc., rapidly produce a substantial amount of Cd, posing environmental risks. Cd toxicity in crop plants decreases nutrient and water uptake and translocation, increases oxidative damage, interferes with plant metabolism and inhibits plant morphology and physiology. However, various conventional physicochemical approaches are available to remove Cd from the soil, including chemical reduction, immobilization, stabilization and electro-remediation. Nevertheless, these processes are costly and unfriendly to the environment because they require much energy, skilled labor and hazardous chemicals. In contrasting, contaminated soils can be restored by using bioremediation techniques, which use plants alone and in association with different beneficial microbes as cutting-edge approaches. This review covers the bioremediation of soils contaminated with Cd in various new ways. The bioremediation capability of bacteria and fungi alone and in combination with plants are studied and analyzed. Microbes, including bacteria, fungi and algae, are reported to have a high tolerance for metals, having a 98% bioremediation capability. The internal structure of microorganisms, their cell surface characteristics and the surrounding environmental circumstances are all discussed concerning how microbes detoxify metals. Moreover, issues affecting the effectiveness of bioremediation are explored, along with potential difficulties, solutions and prospects.

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bioremediationcadmium toxicitymechanismmicrobesrecent advancements

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