Alleviation of cadmium stress in rice by inoculation of Bacillus cereus

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Plant Biology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Revival of industrial waste bacterial strains

Screening of industrial waste bacterial strains for cadmium tolerance

Determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of bacteria for Cadmium

DNA extraction

Identification of bacteria by 16S rRNA gene sequencing

Plant growth promoting traits

Phosphate solubilization assay

Potassium solubilization assay

Protease detection

Production of siderophores

Screening of rice genotypes for cadmium tolerance

Pot experiment

Plant morphological traits

Root scanning

Chlorophyll contents

Determination of malondialdehyde (MDA)

Superoxide dismutase assay (SOD)

Catalase (CAT) activity

Peroxidase (POD) activity

Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) assay

Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity

Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL)

where, 3 represents total volume of assay, 19.73 represents milli-molar extinction co-efficient, and df represents dilution factor.

Relative water content (RWC)

Statistical analysis

Results

Screening, identification, and morphology of bacterial strains isolated from industrial waste for CdCl2 tolerance

Identification of PGPR

Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of Cd resistant bacteria

Plant growth promoting (PGP) traits of Cd resistant bacteria

Screening of rice genotypes for CdCl2 tolerance

Growth and biomass of rice inoculated with bacterial strain S6D1–105 under cadmium stress

Root scanning

Effect of bacterial inoculation and Cd stress on chlorophyll contents, malondialdehyde and relative water content

Effect of bacterial inoculation and Cd stress on antioxidant enzymes

Effect of bacterial inoculation and Cd stress on antioxidant enzymes (CAT, POD and APX) in rice plants

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Zahra Jabeen conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Faiza Irshad performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Ayesha Habib performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Nazim Hussain conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Muhammad Sajjad analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Saqib Mumtaz performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Sidra Rehman analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Waseem Haider analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Muhammad Nadeem Hassan analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

DNA Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of DNA sequences:

The partial sequence for Bacillus cereus strain is available at GenBank: OK310861.1.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data are available in the Supplemental File.

Funding

Zahra Jabeen received funding for this work from COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan. Grant No. 6-78/CRGP/CIIT/ISB/17/1087. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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