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The abundance of toxic heavy metals, organic and inorganic pollutants, xenobiotic chemicals and contaminants pose a major threat to the environment which is linked to the health of the living systems including human beings and needs an eco-friendly remediation technology. This technology may not only reduce the pollution level by degradation or detoxification of such hazardous pollutants but also does not generate any secondary or intermediate pollutants. Phytoremediation is an advanced and efficient plant-based treatment technology that takes advantage of the remarkable ability of the plants to tolerate and grow at higher concentration of pollutants/contaminants. The mechanisms used by the plants for the removal of toxic components from the surroundings include accumulation, absorption or transformation of the toxic compounds in their tissues, leaf, stem and roots. In addition to this, plant-associated microbes also play an important role to enhance the efficiency of phytoremediation process. In recent years, understanding the knowledge of the synergistic relationship between plants and microbes for the removal of unwanted chemicals becomes an interesting area of research. Understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms of plant–microbe interaction helps the environmentalists to get an insight of this technology and to improve and expand new horizons of phytoremediation.
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Mishra, S., Mulla, S.I., Saha, S., Kharat, A.S., More, N., Bharagava, R.N. (2021). Involvement of Synergistic Interactions Between Plant and Rhizospheric Microbes for the Removal of Toxic/Hazardous Contaminants. In: Sharma, A. (eds) Microbes and Signaling Biomolecules Against Plant Stress. Rhizosphere Biology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7094-0_12
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