INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Volume 16, No. 02, Month MARCH, Year 2020, Pages 365 - 376

Degradation of heavy metal contaminated soil using plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgpr): assess their remediation potential and growth influence of vigna radiata. l.

Rajendran, S. K. and Sundaram, L.

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The contamination of heavy metal is caused by the natural and anthropogenic source which a global environment. The remediation of heavy metal- contaminated soil has faced a critical issue due to toxic effects on living organisms. The heavy metal-tolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), Pseudomonas fluorescens (PF01), and Bacillus subtilis (BS01) revealed to alleviate the heavy metal’s toxic effects on the Green gram plant (Vigna radiata, L.) and their abilities to promote plant growth in greenhouse. The growth performance, photosynthetic pigments, heavy metal uptake were presented in green gram cultivated in the soil of contaminated with heavy metals under the greenhouse conditions. Results showed that the application of PGPR strains as a biofertilizer to green gram that helped the plant to ignore the toxic effects of heavy metals and enhanced the plant growth characteristics.

Keywords

Heavy metals, Greengram, PGPR, Biofertilizer, Environment

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