Endophytic bacteria: Prospects and applications for the phytoremediation of organic pollutants

Chemosphere

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 232-242

  Afzal, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Qaiser M ^a   Sessitsch, Angela ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Endophytic bacteria; Gene abundance; Gene expression; Organic pollutants; Phytoremediation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; EFFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIA; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING; PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS; SOIL AND WATER;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLLUTANT;

BACTERIUM; CLEANUP; ENDOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PHYTOTOXICITY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CATABOLISM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEGRADATION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ENDOPHYTE; ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT TISSUE; PLANT-GROWTH PROMOTING BACTERIUM; REVIEW; RHIZOSPHERE BACTERIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WATER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENDOPHYTES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; PLANTS;

EID: 84910017156     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.06.078     Document Type: Review

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