Actinobacteria: current research and perspectives for bioremediation of pesticides and heavy metals

A Alvarez, JM Saez, JSD Costa, VL Colin, MS Fuentes… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Actinobacteria exhibit cosmopolitan distribution since their members are widely distributed
in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In the environment they play relevant ecological roles …

Understanding and designing the strategies for the microbe-mediated remediation of environmental contaminants using omics approaches

MA Malla, A Dubey, S Yadav, A Kumar… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Rapid industrialization and population explosion has resulted in the generation and
dumping of various contaminants into the environment. These harmful compounds …

The effects of chemical and organic fertilizer usage on rhizosphere soil in tea orchards

W Lin, M Lin, H Zhou, H Wu, Z Li, W Lin - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Sustainable agriculture is an important global issue. The use of organic fertilizers can
enhance crop yield and soil properties while restraining pests and diseases. The objective …

[HTML][HTML] Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

MGI Langille, J Zaneveld, JG Caporaso… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Profiling phylogenetic marker genes, such as the 16S rRNA gene, is a key tool for studies of
microbial communities but does not provide direct evidence of a community's functional …

Impacts of heavy metals and soil properties at a Nigerian e-waste site on soil microbial community

B Jiang, A Adebayo, J Jia, Y Xing, S Deng… - Journal of hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Heavy metal contamination is a serious problem worldwide threatening soil environment
and human health. In the present study, concentrations of 6 heavy metals at an electronic …

Deciphering vanadium speciation in smelting ash and adaptive responses of soil microorganisms

J He, B Zhang, W Yan, Y Lai, Y Tang, Y Han, J Liu - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Abundant smelting ash is discharged during pyrometallurgical vanadium (V) production.
However, its associated V speciation and resultant ecological impact have remained …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term and high-concentration heavy-metal contamination strongly influences the microbiome and functional genes in Yellow River sediments

Y Chen, Y Jiang, H Huang, L Mou, J Ru, J Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The world is facing a hard battle against soil pollution such as heavy metals. Metagenome
sequencing, 16S rRNA sequencing, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) …

Bacterial heavy-metal and antibiotic resistance genes in a copper tailing dam area in northern China

J Chen, J Li, H Zhang, W Shi, Y Liu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Heavy metal resistance genes (MRGs) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in bacteria
can respond to the inducement of heavy metals. However, the co-occurrence of MRGs and …

[HTML][HTML] Biotechnological advances in bioremediation of heavy metals contaminated ecosystems: an overview with special reference to phytoremediation

D Mani, C Kumar - International journal of environmental science and …, 2014 - Springer
The ability of heavy metals bioaccumulation to cause toxicity in biological systems—human,
animals, microorganisms and plants—is an important issue for environmental health and …

Heavy metal could drive co-selection of antibiotic resistance in terrestrial subsurface soils

X Wang, B Lan, H Fei, S Wang, G Zhu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Terrestrial surface ecosystems are important sinks for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)
due to the continuous discharge of contaminants from human-impacted ecosystems …