So that these biological agents could be integrated into crop management practices while growing crop plants in heavy metal contaminated agricultural lands.
You will find plenty of publications on AM_ infected plants accumulate polyacrylic hydrocarbons called PAH in their roots on contaminated soils , thereby , scavenging the heavy metals of the contaminated soils and destress the plants of any possible oxidative stress. Extrradical hyphae of AMs also accumulate heavy metals and aid in relieving the plant of any potential oxidative stress due to heavy metals in a contaminated soils..
Heavy metal contaminated soils will have an altogether different microbial diverzity , lets isolate some native heavy metal tolerant microbes, characterize them and use them in a much value added form , preferably in consortium mode to derive best response...
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