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Inoculum Addition in the Presence of Plant Rhizosphere for Petroleum-Polluted Soil Remediation

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Breakdown of the crude oil contaminant by soil microbial community in the bioremediation can be enhanced in the presence of plant rhizosphere, but plant cannot grow and tolerate the high concentration of hydrocarbon. Composting of the crude oil-contaminated soil was found to be an effective technology to decrease the pollutant concentration to the acceptable level for plant growth. Phytoremediation with native plants followed with composting can be performed well, but the microbial abundance in the contaminated soil usually becomes much low as time passes. In order to enhance the degradation potential of heterotrophic microorganisms in bioremediation, different bioaugmentation techniques are used, while few researches also used plant rhizosphere along with it, but the results are ambiguous. The present chapter will explore this ambiguity by providing the complete description about the bioremediation and the facts that plant rhizosphere selects microbial community, which is more suitable for pollutant degradation than addition of microbial culture in soil. Rhizodegradation followed with composting is found to be a useful treatment method for extremely polluted soil, and bioaugmentation with immobilized and free bacterial culture was found more effective without plant.

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Acknowledgment

This research was supported by the Education Ministry of China (project 308016) and national program concerning water pollution control and management, China (2009ZX07010-008).

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Hazara University, Mansehra, KPK, Pakistan

    Farhana Maqbool, Muhammad Faisal Siddiqui & Faiza Nawaz

  2. Department of Environmental Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan

    Zulfiqar A. Bhatti & Qaiser Mehmood

  3. Department of Microbiology, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Abbottabad, KP, Pakistan

    Ibrar Khan

  4. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

    Yang Guo Zhao

  5. Department of Biochemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra, KPK, Pakistan

    Muhammad Sajid &  Umm-e-Kalsoom

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Maqbool, F. et al. (2020). Inoculum Addition in the Presence of Plant Rhizosphere for Petroleum-Polluted Soil Remediation. In: Hakeem, K., Bhat, R., Qadri, H. (eds) Bioremediation and Biotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35691-0_7

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