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Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco

Millions tons of lead and zinc wastes from the abandoned Touissit mine are stored in the open air as dikes in the vicinity of the villages in Eastern Morocco and pose a real danger to both the environment and local populations. To prevent the movement of minerals to the nearby villages and limit the...

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Autores principales: Lamin, Hanane, Alami, Soufiane, Bouhnik, Omar, ElFaik, Salma, Abdelmoumen, Hanaa, Bedmar, Eulogio J., Missbah-El Idrissi, Mustapha
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6663986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31396163
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01456
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author Lamin, Hanane
Alami, Soufiane
Bouhnik, Omar
ElFaik, Salma
Abdelmoumen, Hanaa
Bedmar, Eulogio J.
Missbah-El Idrissi, Mustapha
author_facet Lamin, Hanane
Alami, Soufiane
Bouhnik, Omar
ElFaik, Salma
Abdelmoumen, Hanaa
Bedmar, Eulogio J.
Missbah-El Idrissi, Mustapha
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description Millions tons of lead and zinc wastes from the abandoned Touissit mine are stored in the open air as dikes in the vicinity of the villages in Eastern Morocco and pose a real danger to both the environment and local populations. To prevent the movement of minerals to the nearby villages and limit the damages to the environment and health, we proposed the nitrogen-fixing leguminous shrub Retama monosperma, as a model plant to use for phytostabilization experimentations. This plant species is known by its ability to grow in hard climatic conditions and in heavy metals contaminated soils. The isolation of bacterial strains nodulating R. monosperma in the abandoned mine soils will permit the selection of rhizobia to inoculate young plant seedlings before their use for the phytostabilization of the mine tailings. In this work, 44 bacteria were isolated from the root nodules of R. Monosperma grown in the Touissit abandoned mine. Twenty-four isolates were considered as true rhizobia as they possess a copy of the nodC symbiotic gene and were able to renodulate their original host. The phenotypic characterization showed that all the strains are tolerant in vitro to different concentrations of heavy metals. The analysis of the 16S rRNA sequences of two selected representative strains showed they were related to different strains of Ensifer aridi isolated from different legumes in three continents deserts. The glnII, recA, and gyrB housekeeping genes analysis confirmed the affiliation of the strains to E. aridi. Moreover, the phylogenic analysis of nodA, nodC, and nifH symbiotic genes showed that the strains are more related to E. aridi JNVUTP6 species isolated from Tephrosia purpurea root nodules in the Thar Desert in India. To our knowledge, this is the first report about the isolation of E. aridi from R. monosperma root nodules.
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spelling pubmed-66639862019-08-08 Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco Lamin, Hanane Alami, Soufiane Bouhnik, Omar ElFaik, Salma Abdelmoumen, Hanaa Bedmar, Eulogio J. Missbah-El Idrissi, Mustapha Front Microbiol Microbiology Millions tons of lead and zinc wastes from the abandoned Touissit mine are stored in the open air as dikes in the vicinity of the villages in Eastern Morocco and pose a real danger to both the environment and local populations. To prevent the movement of minerals to the nearby villages and limit the damages to the environment and health, we proposed the nitrogen-fixing leguminous shrub Retama monosperma, as a model plant to use for phytostabilization experimentations. This plant species is known by its ability to grow in hard climatic conditions and in heavy metals contaminated soils. The isolation of bacterial strains nodulating R. monosperma in the abandoned mine soils will permit the selection of rhizobia to inoculate young plant seedlings before their use for the phytostabilization of the mine tailings. In this work, 44 bacteria were isolated from the root nodules of R. Monosperma grown in the Touissit abandoned mine. Twenty-four isolates were considered as true rhizobia as they possess a copy of the nodC symbiotic gene and were able to renodulate their original host. The phenotypic characterization showed that all the strains are tolerant in vitro to different concentrations of heavy metals. The analysis of the 16S rRNA sequences of two selected representative strains showed they were related to different strains of Ensifer aridi isolated from different legumes in three continents deserts. The glnII, recA, and gyrB housekeeping genes analysis confirmed the affiliation of the strains to E. aridi. Moreover, the phylogenic analysis of nodA, nodC, and nifH symbiotic genes showed that the strains are more related to E. aridi JNVUTP6 species isolated from Tephrosia purpurea root nodules in the Thar Desert in India. To our knowledge, this is the first report about the isolation of E. aridi from R. monosperma root nodules. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6663986/ /pubmed/31396163 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01456 Text en Copyright © 2019 Lamin, Alami, Bouhnik, ElFaik, Abdelmoumen, Bedmar and Missbah-El Idrissi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Microbiology
Lamin, Hanane
Alami, Soufiane
Bouhnik, Omar
ElFaik, Salma
Abdelmoumen, Hanaa
Bedmar, Eulogio J.
Missbah-El Idrissi, Mustapha
Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco
title Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco
title_full Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco
title_fullStr Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco
title_full_unstemmed Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco
title_short Nodulation of Retama monosperma by Ensifer aridi in an Abandonned Lead Mine Soils in Eastern Morocco
title_sort nodulation of retama monosperma by ensifer aridi in an abandonned lead mine soils in eastern morocco
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6663986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31396163
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01456
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