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Bioremediation of Polluted Soil by Using Plant
Growth–Promoting Rhizobacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Manoj Kumar Chitara, Sadhna Chauhan, and Rajesh Pratap Singh
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Utilization of Microbial Biofilm for the Biotransformation
and Bioremediation of Heavily Polluted Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 227
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10 Microbes: A Novel Source of Bioremediation for Degradation
of Hydrocarbons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Mridul Shakya, Poonam Verma, Sunil Kumar,
and Sardul Singh Sandhu
11 Microbial Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons . . . . . . . . . . 263
Sharmila Jayasena and Madushika Perera
12 Potential of Extremophiles for Bioremediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Suresh Kaushik, Aishah Alatawi, Setyowati Retno Djiwanti,
Amit Pande, Efstathia Skotti, and Vijay Soni
13 Role of Microbes in Bioremediation of Radioactive Waste . . . . . . . 329
Udaya Kumar Vandana, A. B. M. Gulzar, Islamul Houque Laskar,
L. Romen Meitei, and P. B. Mazumder
14 Plastic-Eating Microorganisms: Recent Biotechnological
Techniques for Recycling of Plastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji and Osikemekha Anthony Anani
15 Bioaugmentation: A Powerful Biotechnological Techniques
for Sustainable Ecorestoration of Soil and Groundwater
Contaminants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
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