The Synergistic Approach / Action of Plants and Rhizobacteria in Crude Oil Contaminated Soil Remediation in Nigeria (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

The synergistic approach of plants and rhizobacteria in crude oil contaminated soil in three different locations were carried out. The presence of heterotrophic bacteria and hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria isolated from the polluted and pristine rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils of the plants were compared. The polluted rhizosphere of total culturable heterotrophic bacterial count gave a range of 0.98x10cfu/g to 1.37x10cfu/g. The pristine rhizosphere count ranged from 4.11x10cfu/g to 7.55x10cfu/g. The polluted non-rhizosphere gave ranged from 2.39x10cfu/g to 3.28x10cfu/g. The pristine non-rhizosphere had a range of 2.90x10cfu/g to 3.97x10cfu/g. The polluted rhizosphere counts for hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria ranged from 1.60x10cfu/g to 6.91x10 cfu/g. The pristine rhizosphere gave a range of 1.85x10cfu/g to 3.38x10cfu/g. In the polluted non-rhizosphere, the range was from 1.02x10cfu/g to 1.42x10cfu/g. A range of 6.05x10cfu/g to 9.75x10cfu/g was obtained from the pristine non-rhi...

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