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- Title
Response of Rhizosphere Microbial Community in High-PAH-Contaminated Soil Using Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench.
- Authors
Liu, Kaikai; Liu, Rui; Xiao, Yao; Song, Mengting; Deng, Xingyu; Dai, Tingting; Wang, Yu; Wu, Xin
- Abstract
Under polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) pollution conditions (149.17–187.54 mg/kg), we had found the dominant flora of PAHs by observing the response of the soil microbial community after planting purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench). In this study, pot experiments were conducted in a growth chamber to explore the changes in the rhizosphere microbial community structure during remediation of heavily PAH-contaminated soil using purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench). The phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) content in the soil was measured during four periods before and after planting, and the results showed that: (i) at 120 days, E. purpurea can regulate the microbial community structure but had no significant effect on soil microbial diversity, (ii) at 120 days, the number of PLFAs characterizing actinomycetes, bacteria, and fungi increased, and both Gram-negative bacteria and Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) were significant with the observed PLFA level (p < 0.05), and (iii) the results indicated that AMF and Gram-negative bacteria represent some of the main factors that can promote the degradation of PAHs. The results obtained in this work are important to future research on PAH-degradation-functional genes and degradation mechanisms of the selection of flora.
- Subjects
MICROBIAL communities; RHIZOSPHERE; VESICULAR-arbuscular mycorrhizas; SOILS; POLYCYCLIC aromatic hydrocarbons; GRAM-negative bacteria
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 6, p2973
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app12062973