Chuluun, Buyan Shah, Syed Haleem Rhee, Jae-Seong 2024-01-20T09:34:11Z 2024-01-20T09:34:11Z 2021-09-04 2014-06 1560-8530 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/126751 Oil spills to natural environment, either accidental or instinctive seepage, pose a long term threat to all kind of life. Efficient remediation techniques are still on the way of development. In the present study, phytoremediation process in combination with introduction of bacterial consortium in a diesel oil-contaminated soil was investigated in terms of removal of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH). A model soil spiked with 50 g diesel oil kg(-1) was incubated over a 90-day period at ambient condition in combination with perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and with hydrocarbon (HC)-degrading bacterial consortium consisting ten strains isolated from petroleum contaminated soils. The average TPH removal efficiency of the bioaugmented phytoremedation was 57.3%, which was 7.3% more efficient than the phytoremediation alone and 5.3% more than the bioaugmentation alone. Mutual interactive effect of the perennial ryegrass and the inoculated bacterial consortium was expalined in terms of alteration in soil conditions, plant growth, bacterial population and diesel oil degradation in the soil. (C) 2014 Friends Science Publishers English FRIENDS SCIENCE PUBL Bioaugmented Phytoremediation: A Strategy for Reclamation of Diesel Oil-contaminated Soils Article 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY, v.16, no.3, pp.624 - 628 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY 16 3 624 628 N scie scopus 000335984300025 2-s2.0-84901046420 Agriculture, Multidisciplinary Biology Agriculture Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics Article PETROLEUM-HYDROCARBONS DEGRADING BACTERIA BIOREMEDIATION RHIZOSPHERE PLANTS MICROORGANISMS BIODEGRADATION BIOSTIMULATION COMMUNITY REMOVAL Phytoremediation Ryegrass Bioaugmentation Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria TPH