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Role of Endophytes in Plant-Associated Remediation and Plant Growth Promotion: A Deep Insight

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Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability

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Nature has developed a synergistic association of plants with various microorganisms for sustainable geochemical cycles. Microorganisms play an important role in providing essential micronutrients to plants along with remediating the contaminated sites in association with plants as synergistic partners. The Industrial Revolution is the primary reason behind the rapid urbanisation and leads to the discharge of toxic and hazardous pollutants in water bodies which ultimately accumulate in the terrestrial environment. Endophytic microorganisms colonise inside the internal tissues of the plants and have better survival chances in comparison to self-reliant microorganisms due to their symbiotic relationship. These endophytes have tendency to degrade variable organic pollutants leading to enhancing growth, providing key elements and shielding plants from hazardous organic pollutants. Correspondingly, inorganic pollutants such as heavy metals are transformed via endophytes restricting their mobility inside the plants and higher organisms. Different mechanisms and pathways have been utilised by endophytes to accomplish this role. Hence this book chapter has been aimed towards phytoremediation first then precisely highlighting different endophytes with their possible role in removing contaminants and plant growth promotion.

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Gupta, S., Kaur, G., Nirwan, J. (2021). Role of Endophytes in Plant-Associated Remediation and Plant Growth Promotion: A Deep Insight. In: Prasad, R., Nayak, S.C., Kharwar, R.N., Dubey, N.K. (eds) Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54422-5_6

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