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Tolerance of Microorganisms in Soil Contaminated with Trace Metals: An Overview

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Trace metal (TM) pollution of soil is a worldwide problem threatening the quality of human life and a proper environment. We investigated fungal and bacterial diversity of trace metal-polluted site contaminated with paper mill effluent in India. Twelve fungal dominant isolates, viz. Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Cunninghamella, Simplicillium, Trichoderma, Rhizomucor, Cladosporium and Hypocrea, were identified. Subsequent screening approach to assess their TM tolerance was performed in vitro cultures which revealed that the majority of the isolates were tolerant to Ni-, Cu-, Zn- and Cd-amended medium. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for Ni, Cu, Zn and Cd was also determined in isolated strains of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Rhizomucor, Trichoderma and Fusarium to study the concentration of growth against various trace metals. A total of 22 bacterial isolates was also isolated using 16S rRNA, and the dominant genera such as Bacillus, Rhizobium, Microbacterium, Arthrobacter, Kribbella and Chitinophaga were identified. The relative growth and LD−50 were also estimated against the different trace metals from concentration 0.1 to 4 mM. Thus, these fungal and bacterial isolates showed a high TM tolerance and would be a great interest for their use in bioremediation to clean up TM-polluted soil.

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The authors are grateful to the Commonwealth Scholarship grant, Canada, for carrying out the present work in the Department of Biological Science, University De Montreal, Montreal, and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Canada, for getting the accession numbers of all isolated trace metal-tolerant microbial strains.

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Chanda, D., Sharma, G.D., Jha, D.K., Hijri, M. (2017). Tolerance of Microorganisms in Soil Contaminated with Trace Metals: An Overview. In: Shukla, P. (eds) Recent advances in Applied Microbiology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5275-0_8

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