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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages 236-244Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.06.007
Keywords
Brevibacillus; Arsenic resistance; Bioremediation; Arsenic removal; Rhizosphere
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- Department of Science and Technology (INSPIRE programme) [DST/INSPIRE Fellowship/2010/[117]]
- Department of Biotechnology, Government of India [BT/PR4693/BCE/8/894/2012]
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Arsenic (As) contamination of soil and water has been considered as a major global environmental issue during last few decades. Among the various methods so far reported for reclamation of As contaminated rhizosphere soil, bioremediation using bacteria has been found to be most promising. An As resistant bacterial isolate Brevibacillus sp. KUMAs2 was obtained from As contaminated soil of Nadia, West Bengal, India, which could resist As(V) and As(III) a maximum of 265 mM and 17 mM, respectively. The strain could remove 40 percent As under aerobic culture conditions. As resistant property in KUMAs2 was found to be plasmid-borne, which carried both As oxidizing and reducing genes. The strain could promote chilli plant growth under As contaminated soil environment by decreasing As accumulation in plant upon successful colonization in the rhizosphere, which suggests the possibility of using this isolate for successful bioremediation of As in the crop field. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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