Petroleum-Tolerant Rhizospheric Bacteria: Isolation, Characterization and Bioremediation Potential.

ABSTRACT: Petroleum is an important energy source. Due to its intensive exploration, accidents resulting in oil spills on soil are frequent, which creates consequences to ecosystems and human health. Rhizodegradation is an efficient technique that promotes the decontamination of polluted environments through the selection and use of rhizosphere microorganisms from phytoremediation plants. The aim of this study was to isolate, identify and characterize bacteria capable of degrading petroleum from the rhizosphere of Panicum aquaticum Poir., a plant that grows in petroleum contaminated soils. Three bacteria were isolated and characterized at the morphological (Gram staining), molecular (16S rRNA gene sequence analysis) and biochemical level. These bacteria were identified as new strains of Bacillus thu

SUBMITTER: Viesser JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7005311 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature