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Bioremediation Effect of Contaminated Soils with Copper and Lead on Sweet Basil Plants

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Agriculture-toxicology interactions
Bioremediation

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The effects of phosphorus amendments and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi Glomus intraradices and pseudomonas putida on the sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) yield, chemical composition and percent of volatile oil, and metal accumulation in plants and its availability in soil were investigated in field experiment at two seasons 2012 and 2013 under contaminated soil with Pb and Cu. The plant height, herb fresh weight, content of essential oil and shoot and root dry weights of sweet basil were increased by the application of mineral phosphorus as compared to control. Inoculation with AM fungi and bacteria reduced the metal concentration in shoot, recording a lowest value of (33.24, 18.60 mg/kg) compared to the control (46.49, 23.46 mg/kg) for Pb and Cu, respectively. Availability of Pb and Cu in soil were decreased after cultivation in all treatments compared to control.  However, metal root concentration increased with the inoculation, with highest values of (30.15, 39.25 mg/kg)compared to control (22.01, 33.57mg/kg) for Pb and Cu, respectively. The content of linalool and methyl chavicol in basil oil was significantly increased in all treatments compared to control, but the interaction was not. We can thus conclude that the AM-sweet basil symbiosis and bacterial inoculation could be employed as an approach to bioremediate polluted soils and enhance the yield and maintain the quality of volatile oil of sweet basil plants.      

DOI

10.21608/jalexu.2016.188196

Keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus, Pseudomonas, Sweet basil, Heavy metals, bioremediation

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Mayada

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Sabra

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Dep. of Agric. Botany, Faculty of Agriculture Saba Basha, Alexandria University

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Soraya

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Sabry

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Dep. of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University

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Amal

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Aboul Nasr

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Dep. of Agric. Botany, Faculty of Agriculture Saba Basha, Alexandria University

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21

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2

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26001

Issue Date

2016-06-01

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2016-03-24

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2016-07-01

Page Start

262

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281

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1110-5585

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2785-9525

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1,789

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Journal of the Advances in Agricultural Researches

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23 Jan 2023