Background Plant-endophyte partnership provides an excellent gateway toward restoration
of contaminated ecosystems. The interactions between both partners can be manipulated by …

Post-industrial era has witnessed significant advancements at unprecedented rates in the
field of medicine and cosmetics, which has led to affluent use of pharmaceuticals and …

The use of plants and bacterial to clean up environmental pollutants has gained momentum
in past years. A limitation to phytoremediation of solvents has been toxicity of the …

Endophytes have been isolated from a large diversity of plants and have been shown to
enhance the remediation efficiency of plants, but little information is available on the …

Petroleum hydrocarbons are well known by their high toxicity and recalcitrant properties.
Their increasing utilization around worldwide led to environmental contamination …

Hydrocarbon phytoremediation by Cyperus laxus Lam. growing on perlite and inoculated
with hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms was evaluated. Total petroleum hydrocarbons …

Plants are associated with hundreds of thousands of microbes that are present outside on
the surfaces or colonizing inside plant organs, such as leaves and roots. Plant-associated …

Phytoremediation is increasingly adopted as a more sustainable approach for soil
remediation. However, significant advances in efficiency are still necessary to attain higher …

Plant‐associated bacteria can have beneficial effects on the growth and health of their host.
Nevertheless, the role of endophytic bacteria present in seeds has not been investigated in …

Benzo [a] pyrene, a high molecular weight (HMW) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)
was removed from solution by Sphingomonas yanoikuyae JAR02 while growing on root …