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ARCHIVES OF AGRONOMY AND SOIL SCIENCE
Volume 63, Issue 8, Pages 1058-1069Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2016.1261116
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Rhizobium strain; Cr(VI) removal; SEM-EDX; IAA; plant growth promotion
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Soil contaminated by chromium (Cr) is a major concern for sustainable agriculture. Considering this as a basis, the present study was designed to isolate Cr(VI)-reducing and plant growth-promoting bacterial strain from contaminated sampling sources. In this study, Rhizobium strain ND2 was isolated from the root nodules of Phaseolus vulgaris grown in leather industrial effluent contaminated soil. The strain ND2 exhibited strong resistance to different heavy metals and reduced 30 and 50 mu gml(-1) concentrations of Cr(VI) completely after 80 and 120h of incubation, respectively, as well as chromium adsorption and immobilization were confirmed by scanning electron microscopic equipped with energy X-ray spectroscopy. In addition, the strain produced 21.73 and 36.86 mu gml(-1) of indole-3-acetic acid at 50 and 100 mu gml(-1) of L-tryptophan supplimentations, respectively. Strain ND2 positively affected the exo-polysaccharide, ammonia, protease and catalase production and stimulated root length of various test crops under Cr(VI) stress. Moreover, Rhizobium strain ND2 has the potential to colonize the diverse agricultural crops. Thus, the present findings strongly suggested that the multipotential properties of ND2 could be exploited for bioremediation of contaminated sites with Cr(VI) as well as potential bio fertilizer for enhancing the agricultural productivity.
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