Table 14.2
(continued)
S. no. Microbes
Plant
Metal/
abiotic stress Response
References
12
Paenibacillus mucilaginosus
Sinorhizobium meliloti
Alfa alfa
Cu
Metal uptake was enhanced and also increased
the biochemical responses in plants and
phytomanagement of soil contaminated with the
metal
Ju et al. (2019)
13
Bacillus cereus
Enterobacter cloacae
Zea mays
Cd
Pb
Salinity
Decreases the accumulation of metal in plant as
metal accumulated in the microbial tissues and
increases the growth of plant
Abedinzadeh et al.
(2019)
14
Enterobacter cloacae
Oryza sativa
Cr
Uplifts the process of bioremediation by reducing the metal
Pattnaik et al. (2020)
15
Rhizobium leguminosarum
Sinorhizobium meliloti
Pseudomonas
fluorescens
Luteibacter
sp.
Variovorax
sp.
Bacillus simplex
Bacillus megaterium
Lathyrus sativus
Cu
Zn
Pb
Cd
Accumulation in the plant parts increased by
removing metal from the soil
Abdelkrim et al.
(2019)
16
Microbacterium oxydans
Pseudomonas thivervalensis
Burkholderia cepacia
Brassica napus
Cu
Increases the metal uptake and physiological
processes in plant by reducing the metal stress
Ren et al. (2019)
17
Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus
cereus
Lens culinaris
Cr
Increased the fresh weight of plants and also
enhanced morphological and the biochemical
parameters of the plant
Fatima and Ahmed
(2018)
18
Bacillus subtilis
B. thuringiensis
B. megaterium
Cicer arietinum
Cd
Accumulation of metal was observed in the
shoot
Khan and Bano (2019)
19
Pseudomonas koreensis
Miscanthus sinensis
Pb
Enhanced plant biomass, photosynthetic pigments, antioxidative defense in plants, and metal
uptake
Babu et al. (2015)
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