In this study, a copper-resistant plant growth promoting bacterial (PGPB) strain Ax10 was isolated from a Cu mine soil to assess its plant growth promotion and copper uptake in Brassica juncea. The strain Ax10 tolerated concentrations up to 600 mg CuL(-1) on a Luria-Bertani (LB) agar medium and utilized 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) as a sole N source in DF salts minimal medium. T...

Mycoremediation is an on-site remediation strategy, which employs fungi to degrade or sequester contaminants from the environment. The present work focused on the bioremediation of soils contaminated with zinc by the use of a native mycorrhizal fungi (AM) called Funneliformis geosporum (Nicol. & Gerd.) Walker & Schüßler. Experiments were performed using Triticum aestivum L. cv. Gemmeza-10 at di...

It has been widely reported in literature that brassinosteroids play a pivotal role in stress mitigation in plants. The present study was undertaken to assess the effect of 24-epibrasssinolide (24-EpiBR) on the growth, endogenous levels of total sugars, reducing sugars and plant growth regulators (PGRs) such as jasmonic acid and polyamines (PAs) like spermine, spermidine, putrescine and cadaver...

Pot and field experiments were conducted to evaluate bioavailability of Cu in contaminated paddy soil (PS) and phytoremediation potential by Elsholtzia splendens as affected by soil amendments. The results from pot experiment showed that organic manure (M) applied to the PS not only remarkably raised the H2O exchangeable Cu, which were mainly due to the increased exchangeable and organic fracti...

In the agricultural regions of Burkina Faso, urban solid waste fertilizers were usually applied. This activity is likely to contaminate soils and expose populations serious diseases. study aims assess rate heavy metal (Cd, Cu, Mn, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cr) contamination in both lixisol vertisol evaluate removal efficiency metals using Vetiver grass on different two mixed contaminated soils. A pot experim...

ANOVA-Analysis of variance; BISBureau of Indian standards; RTRelative toxicity; LAILeaf area index; HIHarvest index This investigation studies the enrichment and translocation of heavy metals in soil and plan of V. faba (Faba bean, var. Pusa Sumit) after fertigation with distillery effluent. A field experiment was conducted in the experimental garden of Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar, dur...