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Rhizosphere microbial activity during phytoremediation of diesel-contaminated soil
- Title
- Rhizosphere microbial activity during phytoremediation of diesel-contaminated soil
- Authors
- Kim J.; Kang S.-H.; Min K.-A.; Cho K.-S.; Lee I.-S.
- Ewha Authors
- 이인숙; 조경숙; 김재수
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 이인숙; 조경숙
- Issue Date
- 2006
- Journal Title
- Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering
- ISSN
- 1093-4529
- Citation
- Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 2503 - 2516
- Indexed
- SCI; SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- To know microbial activity and diesel-removal efficiency influencing through plant roots, we examined the effect of the rhizosphere on phytoremediation of diesel-contaminated soils by alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Pots were treated with and without diesel and allowed to stabilize for 7 weeks, at which time four experimental/control groups were prepared: (1) planted diesel-contaminated soil, (2) unplanted diesel-contaminated soil, (3) planted uncontaminated soil, and (4) unplanted uncontaminated soil. Samples of rhizosphere and bulk soils were separately taken from all planted pots. After 7 weeks of alfalfa growth from seeds, the removal efficiencies in rhizosphere and bulk soil samples were 82.5% and 36.5 59.4%, respectively. The total microbial activity was highest in diesel-contaminated rhizosphere soils. Significantly more culturable soil bacteria and hydrocarbon-degraders were found in diesel-contaminated rhizosphere soil versus unplanted and uncontaminated bulk soil, with a greater increase seen in hydrocarbon-degraders (172-fold) versus general soil bacteria (14-fold). DGGE (Denaturing Gel Gradient Electrophoresis) analysis revealed that the bacterial community structure was most highly influenced by the combined presence of diesel contamination and plant roots (39.13% similarity compared to the control), but that diesel contamination alone had a higher influence (42.31% similarity compared to the control) than the rhizosphere (50.00% similarity compared to the control). Sequence analysis and BLAST searches revealed that all samples were dominated by members of α -, γ -, δ - and ε -proteobacteria, and Chloroflexi. The rhizosphere samples additionally contained novel dominant members of α -proteobacteria and Cytophaga-Flexibacter-Bacteroides, while the diesel samples contained additional dominant α -proteobacteria and the rhizosphere plus diesel samples contained other ε -proteobacteria. Collectively, these findings indicate that the presence of plant roots (i.e., a rhizosphere) had a greater effect on bacterial activity in diesel contamination than did the absence of diesel contamination, whereas diesel contamination had a greater effect on bacterial community structure. These novel findings provide new insight into the mechanisms of phytoremediation. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- DOI
- 10.1080/10934520600927658
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- 자연과학대학 > 생명과학전공 > Journal papers
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