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Thailand is an agricultural country. However, agricultural productivity relies on the heavy use of herbicides, especially paraquat. Paraquat accumulation is emerging as a problem in an ever-growing portion of agricultural land. Paraquat residues are toxic to plants, animals, and aquatic organisms in the environment. Biological remediation is a process that can mitigate agricultural chemical contaminants. One of the interesting bioremediators is bacteria. Not only do certain soil bacteria remediate paraquat, but some of them also possess plant growth-promoting properties, which provide advantages in field application. Thus, this study aimed to screen soil bacteria that could degrade paraquat and, at the same time, promote plant growth. Bacteria were isolated from paraquat-treated agricultural soil in Mueang Kaen Pattana municipality, Chiang Mai province, Thailand. On the basis of morphological and 16S rDNA sequence analyses, the selected bacterium was identified as  Bacillus aryabhattai  strain MoB09. It is capable of growing in nitrogen-free media.  B. aryabhattai  growth and paraquat degradation were found to be optimum at pH 7 and 30°C. This selected strain also possessed plant growth-promoting abilities, including indole production, siderophore production, phosphate solubilization, and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid deaminase activity. Paraquat degradation was also evaluated in pot experiments of cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata ). It was found that this strain could remediate the paraquat residue in both sterilized and non-sterilized soils. The cowpea plants grown in paraquat-contaminated soil with  B. aryabhattai  showed longer root and shoot lengths than those grown in soil without bacterial inoculation. In addition,  B. aryabhattai  also promoted the growth of cowpea under induced drought stress. These results suggested that  B. aryabhattai  could be applied to mitigate paraquat residue in soil and also to promote plant productivity for the organic crop production.

Plant Growth and Drought Tolerance-Promoting Bacterium for Bioremediation of Paraquat Pesticide Residues in Agriculture Soils