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TABLE 3.2 (Continued)

Type of Stress

PGPRs

Host

Response in Plants

References

Heavy metal

Rhodococcus spp. Brassica juncea

Reduced Cd toxicity in plants by reducing Cd

Nadeem et al. (2013)

concentration in plant.

Rhizobium trifolii Clover

Induced growth by accumulating N and P under nickel

Vivas et al. (2003)

and Brevibacillus

toxicity.

brevis

Pseudomonas

Pisum sativum

Induced root growth under Cd contaminated soil.

Safronova et al.

brassicacearum

(2006)

Pseudomonas

Wheat

Enhanced plant growth under Zn contaminated soil by

Nadeem et al. (2013)

aeruginosa

increasing leaf chlorophyll and soluble proteins.

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