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Rhizoremediation: A Unique Plant Microbiome Association of Biodegradation

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Microbes can be incorporated into a particular area where it can interact with selected pollutants and convert them into nontoxic or relatively less toxic compounds by excellent colonization in plant roots, thereby helping in the degradation of pollutants. This process is called ‘rhizoremediation’ which serves to emphasize the role of rhizosphere having competent microbes. These days majority of the process involving the degradation of environmental pollutants occurs through rhizospheric microbes. Root exudates can be taken as the best food source that is available in the soil for these microbes. The plants’ uptake of heavy metals from soils in high concentrations negatively influences the interaction of microbes with plants, its growth and consequently the crop’s production and yield. Heavy metals behave as genotoxic substances, and they disintegrate different cell organelles, rupture the cell membranes and disturb the physiological process like carbohydrate metabolism, protein synthesis and respiration photosynthesis. Some of the species of the pseudomonad family are root colonizer, having high efficiency for remediating pollutants via phytoremediators. In the previous two decades, various research articles on rhizodegradation of different toxicants utilizing diverse plants or potentially microbial inoculants have been documented.

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Kumar, A., Devi, S., Agrawal, H., Singh, S., Singh, J. (2020). Rhizoremediation: A Unique Plant Microbiome Association of Biodegradation. In: Varma, A., Tripathi, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Plant Microbe Symbiosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36248-5_11

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