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Engineering Plant-Microbe Symbiosis for Rhizoremediation of Heavy Metals
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The use of plants for rehabilitation of heavy-metal-contaminated environments is an emerging area of interest because it provides an ecologically sound and safe method for restoration and remediation. Although a number of plant species are capable of hyperaccumulation of heavy metals, the technology is not applicable for remediating sites with multiple contaminants. A clever solution is to combine the advantages of microbe-plant symbiosis within the plant rhizosphere into an effective cleanup technology. We demonstrated that expression of a metal-binding peptide (EC20) in a rhizobacterium, Pseudomonas putida 06909, not only improved cadmium binding but also alleviated the cellular toxicity of cadmium. More importantly, inoculation of sunflower roots with the engineered rhizobacterium resulted in a marked decrease in cadmium phytotoxicity and a 40% increase in cadmium accumulation in the plant root. Owing to the significantly improved growth characteristics of both the rhizobacterium and plant, the use of EC20-expressing P. putida endowed with organic-degrading capabilities may be a promising strategy to remediate mixed organic-metal-contaminated sites.
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- Authors
- Wu, C. H., Wood, T. K., Mulchandani, A., & Chen, W.
- Venue
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 1129-1134
- ISSN
- 0099-2240 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-5336
- OpenAlex
- W2084005205
- Cited by
- 294
- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 10.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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