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Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and addition of composted olive-mill waste enhance plant establishment and soil properties in the regeneration of a heavy metal-polluted environment

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A greenhouse experiment was carried out in order to investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi inoculation and the use of composted olive waste (COW) in the establishment of Tetraclinis articulata and soil properties in a heavy metal-polluted soil. The treatments assayed were as follows: AM + 0 % COW, AM + 1 % COW, and AM + 3 % COW. The higher doses of COW in combination with AM fungi increased shoot and root biomass production of T. articulata by 96 and 60 %, respectively. These treatments trended to improve the soil properties evaluated, highlighting the C compounds and N as well as the microbiological activities. In relation to the metal translocation in T. articulata, doses of COW applied decreased the Cr, Ni, and Pb contents in shoot, as well as Cr and As in root, although the most of them reached low levels and far from phytotoxic. The COW amendment aided Glomus mosseae-inoculated T. articulata plants to thrive in contaminated soil, mainly through an improvement in both nutrients uptake, mainly P and soil microbial function. In addition, the combined use of AM fungi plus COW could be a feasible strategy to be incorporated in phytoremediation programs because it promotes soil properties, a better performance of plants for supporting the stress in heavy metal-contaminated soils derived from the mining process, and also can be a good way for olive-mill waste disposal.

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G. Curaqueo thanks Fundación Carolina (Spain) and Universidad de La Frontera (Chile) for supporting his Postdoctoral stay at CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain. M. Schoebitz would like to thank the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile (CONICYT) for the postdoctoral fellowship.

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    Gustavo Curaqueo & Fernando Borie

  2. CSIC-Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura, P.O. Box 164, Campus de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Mauricio Schoebitz, Fuensanta Caravaca & Antonio Roldán

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Curaqueo, G., Schoebitz, M., Borie, F. et al. Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and addition of composted olive-mill waste enhance plant establishment and soil properties in the regeneration of a heavy metal-polluted environment. Environ Sci Pollut Res 21, 7403–7412 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-2696-z

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