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Role of Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in the Management of Cadmium-Contaminated Soil

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During the last decades, heavy metals have become a common contaminant worldwide. Root-colonizing bacteria that exert beneficial effects on plant development directly or indirectly, often called as plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), play an important role in the remediation of heavy-metal-contaminated soils. The prospect of manipulating rhizosphere microbial populations by inoculating beneficial bacteria to increase plant growth has shown considerable promise in laboratory and greenhouse studies, but responses have been variable under the field trials. In addition to their role in metal decontamination/removal, PGPR have also been found to facilitate plant growth in conventional soils by various mechanisms. These mechanisms include the suppression of phytopathogens by producing siderophores, synthesizing antifungal antibiotics, secreting fungal cell-wall-lysing enzymes, or hydrogen cyanide in addition to the release of growth-promoting hormones, solubilization of insoluble phosphate, and providing other essential nutrients to plants. Here in this chapter, the role of PGPR in metal especially cadmium decontamination is highlighted.

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Kumar, A. (2012). Role of Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in the Management of Cadmium-Contaminated Soil. In: Zaidi, A., Wani, P., Khan, M. (eds) Toxicity of Heavy Metals to Legumes and Bioremediation. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0730-0_10

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