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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 211, Issue -, Pages 407-419Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.07.148
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Bioremediation; Arsenate reduction; Heavy metal; 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase; Plant growth promotion; Ethylene production
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- DST (SERB), New Delhi, India through Department of Marine Science, Ballygunge Science College, Calcutta University [NPDF/2016/00323]
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The biological agents have been utilized as an affordable alternative to conventional costly metal remediation technologies for last few years. The present investigation introduces arsenic (As) resistant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) isolated from the As-contaminated agricultural field of West Bengal, India that alleviates arsenic-induced toxicity and exhibited many plant growth promoting traits (PGP). The isolated strain designated as AS6 has identified as Bacillus aryabhattai based on phenotypic characteristics, physio-biochemical tests, MALDI-TOFMS bio-typing, FAME analysis and 16S rDNA sequence homology. The strain found to exhibit five times more resistance to arsenate than arsenite with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) being 100 mM and 20 mM respectively. The result showed that accumulation of As was evidenced by SEM- EDAX, TEM-EDAX studies. The intracellular accumulation of arsenic was also confirmed as in bacterial biomass by AAS, FTIR, XRD and XRF analyses. The increased rate of As (V) reduction by this strain found to be exploited for the remediation of arsenic in the contaminated agricultural field. The strain also found to exhibit important PGP traits viz., ACC deaminase activity (2022 nmol alpha-ketobutyrateimg protein/h), IAA production (166 mu g/ml), N-2 fixation (0.32 mu gN fixed/h/mg proteins) and siderophore production (72%) etc. Positive influenced of AS6 strain on rice seedlings growth promotion under As stress was observed considering the several morphological, biochemical parameters including antioxidants activities as compared with an uninoculated set. Thus this strain might be exploited for stress amelioration and plant growth enhancement of rice cultivar under arsenic spiked agricultural soil. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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