ReviewFrontiers in plant science2024
Microbial mediated remediation of heavy metals toxicity: mechanisms and future prospects.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- PRISMA-based review ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Pooled it
- Fungi to the rescue: recent advances, mechanistic insights and omics-based perspectives in heavy metal mycoremediation.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
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- When remediation creates toxicological risk: transformation products and the soil exposome in contaminated agroecosystems.Archives of toxicology · 2026Article
- Plant-Microbe-Assisted Approaches for Remediating Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutant Contamination in Electronic Waste Dump Sites.ACS omega · 2026Review
- Transporter promiscuity and redox-driven metal partitioning in plant responses to chemically analogous metals.Plant cell reports · 2026Review
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- Research Trends in Microbial Remediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils: A Bibliometric Analysis.Microorganisms · 2026Review
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- Heavy Metals Risk Assessment and Source Apportionment in Agricultural Soils of the Central Yunnan Dry-Hot Valley.Toxics · 2026Article
- Impacts of arsenic contamination on plants and the role of microalgae in arsenic stress mitigation for sustainable agriculture.Biodegradation · 2026Review
- Emerging strategies for heavy metal removal in soils: plant-microbe interactions and omics perspectives.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Deciphering microbial approaches for heavy metal removal: an overview on their mechanisms, innovations and future horizons.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Use of organic soil conditioners to improve sunflower's phyto-stabilization in copper-contaminated soil.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Ecological and functional roles of plant microbiomes in environmental detoxification.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Structural analysis of bacterial metallothioneins involved in heavy metal detoxification.Bioinformation · 2026Article
- Microbe-mediated nanotechnology for heavy metal detoxification and crop resilience: mechanisms, advances, and future prospects.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Bacterial Diversity of Arctic Soils with Long-Standing Pollution by Petroleum Products and Heavy Metals.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Harnessing the bioremediation potential of indigenous Pseudomonas stutzeri for textile effluent treatment: a mechanistic insight.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Heavy metal pollution has become a serious concern across the globe due to their persistent nature, higher toxicity, and recalcitrance. These toxic metals threaten the stability of the environment and the health of all living beings. Heavy metals also enter the human food chain by eating contaminated foods and cause toxic effects on human health. Thus, remediation of HMs polluted soils is mandatory and it needs to be addressed at higher priority. The use of microbes is considered as a promising approach to combat the adverse impacts of HMs. Microbes aided in the restoration of deteriorated environments to their natural condition, with long-term environmental effects. Microbial remediation prevents the leaching and mobilization of HMs and they also make the extraction of HMs simple. Therefore, in this context recent technological advancement allowed to use of bioremediation as an imperative approach to remediate polluted soils. Microbes use different mechanisms including bio-sorption, bioaccumulation, bioleaching, bio-transformation, bio-volatilization and bio-mineralization to mitigate toxic the effects of HMs. Thus, keeping in the view toxic HMs here in this review explores the role of bacteria, fungi and algae in bioremediation of polluted soils. This review also discusses the various approaches that can be used to improve the efficiency of microbes to remediate HMs polluted soils. It also highlights different research gaps that must be solved in future study programs to improve bioremediation efficency.
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