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Experimentation on Degradation of Petroleum in Contaminated Soils in the Root Zone of Maize (Zea Mays L.) Inoculated with Piriformospora Indica
Authors:Javad Zamani  Mohammad Ali Hajabbasi  Mohammad Reza Mosaddeghi  Mohsen Soleimani  Mehran Shirvani  Rainer Schulin
Affiliation:1. Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Kerman, Iranja.zamani@yahoo.com;3. Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran;4. Department of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran;5. Department of Environmental Systems Science, Soil Protection Group, Eidgen?ssische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
Abstract:
Plant-based methods such as rhizodegradation are very promising for the remediation of petroleum-contaminated soils. Associations of plants with endophytes can further enhance their phytoremediation potential. In this study, a rhizobox experiment was conducted to investigate whether inoculation with the root-colonizing fungus Piriformospora indica could further enhance the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in the root zone of maize (Zea mays L.). The rhizoboxes were subdivided into compartments in accordance with distance from the plants. After filling the boxes with soil from a petroleum-contaminated site, seedlings that had either been inoculated with P. indica or not were grown in the middle compartments of the rhizoboxes and grown for 64 days. A plant-free treatment was included for control. The presence of roots strongly increased the counts of total and petroleum-degrading soil bacteria, respiration, dehydrogenase activity, water-soluble phenols and petroleum degradation. All these effects were also found in the soil adjacent to the middle compartments of the rhizoboxes, but strongly decreased further away from it. Inoculation with P. indica further enhanced all the recorded parameters without changing the spatial pattern of the effects. Inoculated plants also produced around 40% more root and shoot biomass than noninoculated plants and had greener leaves. Together, the results indicate that the treatment effects on the recorded soil microbial and biochemical parameters including petroleum hydrocarbon degradation were primarily due to increased root exudation. Irrespectively of this, they show that maize can be used to accelerate the rhizodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil and that inoculation with P. indica can substantially enhance the phytoremediation performance of maize.
Keywords:Rhizodegradation  rhizobox  endophyte  Piriformospora indica  petroleum-contaminated soil
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