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SUBMITTER: Sun K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4071310 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun Kai K Liu Juan J Gao Yanzheng Y Jin Li L Gu Yujun Y Wang Wanqing W
Scientific reports 20140626
This investigation provides a novel method of endophyte-aided removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plant bodies. A phenanthrene-degrading endophytic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. Ph6 was isolated from clover (Trifolium pratense L.) grown in a PAH-contaminated site. After being marked with the GFP gene, the colonization and distribution of strain Ph6-gfp was directly visualized in plant roots, stems, and leaves for the first time. After ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) roots inoc ...[more]