Microbe-Assisted Rhizoremediation of Hydrocarbons and Growth Promotion of Chickpea Plants in Petroleum Hydrocarbons-Contaminated Soil

The present work aimed to develop and investigate microbial consortia for petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) detoxification plant growth improvement in hydrocarbons-contaminated soil. Here, we isolated several bacteria from PHCs-contaminated soils make bacterial two of the best were tested a pot experiment evaluate their potential PHCs removal chickpea promotion Results demonstrated that exerted considerable phytotoxic effects on physiology by causing 13–29% 12–43% reduction agronomic physiological traits, respectively. However, presence consortia, phytotoxicity plants was minimized, resulting 7.0–24% 6.0–35% increase respectively over un-inoculated controls. Bacterial also boosted nutrient uptake antioxidant mechanism chickpea. In addition, alone phytoremediated 52% initial concentration. addition could remove 74–80% concentration Based our research findings, suggest use multi-trait be sustainable environmentally friendly strategy remediation contaminated