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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Toxicology, Pollution and the Environment
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1532169
This article is part of the Research Topic Advances in Soil Pollution Research: Risk Assessment and Ecosystems Management View all articles

A review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in remediating toxic metals in mine-affected soils

Provisionally accepted
Sonali Banerjee Sonali Banerjee 1Dr. Jajati Mandal Dr. Jajati Mandal 2Dibyendu Sarkar Dibyendu Sarkar 3Rupali Datta Rupali Datta 4Pradip Bhattacharyya Pradip Bhattacharyya 1*
  • 1 Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, India
  • 2 University of Salford, Salford, North West England, United Kingdom
  • 3 Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
  • 4 Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States

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    Mines are natural reservoirs of various types of minerals, metals, and metalloids. Several heavy metals (HMs) such as Pb, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni are major anthropogenic pollutants that cause severe environmental pollution.Accumulation of these toxic HMs in soils has raised several concerns for crop growth, food safety, and marketing.Physiological and biochemical processes in plants are severely impacted by HMs, disrupting normal metabolic activities and reducing biomass production. Phytoremediation plays a pivotal role in addressing HMs contamination by offering an eco-friendly, economical, and holistic solution. Similarly, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a significant role by forming a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. In this association, plants provide root exudates, while AMF enhances plant growth under heavy metal stress by supplying essential nutrients, minerals, and water. These fungi also improve nutrient status, soil quality and ecosystem stability. The present review and meta-analysis encompass an examination of the global distribution of toxic HMs in miningaffected areas. Furthermore, the study highlights the role of various plant species and microbes, particularly AMF, in mitigating HMs stress and its impact on plant growth and nutrition. The meta-analysis also evaluates the efficacy of AMF as a remediation strategy for HMs-impacted mine soils.

    Keywords: mines, heavy metals, Phytoremediation, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), Meta-analysis Mines, Meta-analysis

    Received: 22 Nov 2024; Accepted: 12 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Banerjee, Mandal, Sarkar, Datta and Bhattacharyya. 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) or licensor 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.

    * Correspondence: Pradip Bhattacharyya, Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, India

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