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Evaluation of heavy metals tolerant bacterial strains as antioxidant agents and plant growth promoters

Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology • 2019
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Authors Hamed E.Abou-Aly, Ahmed M.Youssef, Rasha M. El-eihya,Taha A. Tawfik, Eman A. El-Akshar
Keywords Heavy metals, PGPR, Antioxidant activities, Alcaligenes faecalis, Biosurfactant
Journal Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
Publisher Elsevier
Volume 19
Issue Not Available
Pages 1-6
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
Supplementary Materials Not Available
Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate three heavy metal tolerant bacterial strains (HMTB) namely Alcaligenes faecalis MG257493.1, Bacillus cereus MG257494.1 and Alcaligenes faecalis MG966440.1 as antioxidant agents and plant growthpromotorsunderlaboratoryconditions.Theirabilitiestoinhibit2,2-DiPhenyl-2-Picrylhydrazylhydrate (DPPH) as non-enzymatic antioxidant activity and produce plant growth promoters (indole acetic acid (IAA), gibberellins (GA3),salicylic acid (SA),proline (Pro.), sidrophores, exopolysaccharide (EPS) and biosurfactant) wereestimatedinpresenceoffourheavymetalsZinc(Zn2+)cadmium(Cd2+),copper(Cu2+)andlead(Pb2+)at 1000 and 1500mg/l. Results showed that the antioxidant activities of three strains were increased with the increasing of heavy metals concentration. All tested strains were able to produce all estimated plant growth promotersinthepresenceorabsenceofheavymetalsandthehighestamountsofallcompoundswererecorded in media free of heavy metals and decreased with the increasing of heavy metals concentration. Also, results proved that the three evaluated strains were considered as heavy metal tolerant-plant growth promoting bacteria (HMT-PGPB) and have beneficial characteristics for remediating the contaminated mine tailing soil.