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Title: | Phytoremediation of soils co-contaminated by organic compounds and heavy metals: Bioassays with Lupinus luteus L. and associated endophytic bacteria | Authors: | Gutierrez-Gines, M. J. Hernandez, A. J. Perez-Leblic, M. I. Pastor, J. VANGRONSVELD, Jaco |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Source: | JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 143, p. 197-207 | Abstract: | In the central part of the Iberian Peninsula there are old sealed landfills containing soils co-contaminated by several heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni, As, Cr, Fe, Al, Mn) and organic pollutants of different families (hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides and other organochlorinated compounds, phenols and volatile compounds), which this work will address. We have focused on phytoremedial plants that are able to deal with this type of complex pollution, not only species that tolerate the joint effect of heavy metals in the soil, but also those that can take advantage of associated bacteria to efficiently break down organic compounds. This study was carried out with Lupinus luteus and its endophytes in two greenhouse experiments: A) growing in a substrate artificially contaminated with benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), and B) using real co-contaminated landfill soils. Endophytes of roots and shoots were isolated in both bioassays. Plant growth-promotion tests and organic pollutant tolerance and degradation tests were conducted on all strains isolated in bioassay A), and on those proving to be pure cultures from bioassay B). The selected landfill is described as are isolation and test procedures. Results indicate that plants did not show toxicity symptoms when exposed to BaP but did when grown in landfill soil. Some endophytes demonstrated plant growth-promotion capacity and tolerance to BaP and other organic compounds (diesel and PCB commercial mixtures). A few strains may even have the capacity to metabolize those organic pollutants. The overall decline in plant growth-promotion capacity in those strains isolated from the landfill soil experiment, compared with those from the bioassay with BaP, may indicate that lupin endophytes are not adapted to metal concentration in roots and shoots and fail to grow. As a result, most isolated root endophytes must have colonized root tissues from the soil. While preliminary degradation tests showed promising results (some strains exhibiting the potential to use organic pollutants as their sole source of carbon), these are not conclusive and further in-depth degradation assays need to be performed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Notes: | Gutierrez-Gines, MJ (reprint author), Dept Life Sci, Sci Bldg,Madrid Barcelona Km 33-6, Alcala De Henares 28871, Spain.mjesus.gutierrezg@uah.es | Keywords: | landfills; benzo(a)pyrene; PCBs; diesel | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/17125 | ISSN: | 0301-4797 | e-ISSN: | 1095-8630 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.04.028 | ISI #: | 000338810200022 | Rights: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2015 |
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