Phylloremediation of Air Pollutants: Exploiting the Potential of Plant Leaves and Leaf-Associated Microbes

A mixed integer programming model for National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) attainment strategy analysis

(2017) Alexander J. Macpherson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Diversity and hydrocarbon-degrading potential of epiphytic microbial communities on Platanus x acerifolia leaves in an urban area

(2017) Isabella Gandolfi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

How Does the Amount and Composition of PM Deposited on Platanus acerifolia Leaves Change Across Different Cities in Europe?

(2017) Chiara Baldacchini et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A world avoided: impacts of changes in anthropogenic emissions on the burden and effects of air pollutants in Europe and North America

(2017) A. T. Archibald et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships

(2017) Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe et al.   NATURE

Weather conditions conducive to Beijing severe haze more frequent under climate change

(2017) Wenju Cai et al.   Nature Climate Change

Variation in Tree Species Ability to Capture and Retain Airborne Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5)

(2017) Lixin Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

A world avoided: impacts of changes in anthropogenic emissions on the burden and effects of air pollutants in Europe and North America

(2017) A. T. Archibald et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

The Phyllosphere: Microbial Jungle at the Plant–Climate Interface

(2016) Corinne Vacher et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Impact of urban land use on the bacterial phyllosphere of ivy ( Hedera sp. )

(2016) Wenke Smets et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Air pollution trends over Indian megacities and their local-to-global implications

(2016) B.R. Gurjar et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Concentrations, correlations and chemical species of PM 2.5 /PM 10 based on published data in China: Potential implications for the revised particulate standard

(2016) Xuehua Zhou et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Impact of air pollution induced climate change on water availability and ecosystem productivity in the conterminous United States

(2016) Kai Duan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Air-borne xylene degradation by Bougainvillea buttiana and the role of epiphytic bacteria in the degradation

(2016) S. Sangthong et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Impacts of particulate matter pollution on plants: Implications for environmental biomonitoring

(2016) Prabhat Kumar Rai   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Endophytic Bacillus cereus ERBP—Clitoria ternatea interactions: Potentials for the enhancement of gaseous formaldehyde removal

(2016) Gholamreza Khaksar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Removal of Indoor Volatile Organic Compounds via Photocatalytic Oxidation: A Short Review and Prospect

(2016) Yu Huang et al.   MOLECULES

Effect of endophytic Bacillus cereus ERBP inoculation into non-native host: Potentials and challenges for airborne formaldehyde removal

(2016) Gholamreza Khaksar et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Air pollutant emissions from Chinese households: A major and underappreciated ambient pollution source

(2016) Jun Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Air pollution and risk of respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations in the most populous city in Vietnam

(2016) Dung Phung et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Removal of Ethylbenzene from Contaminated Air by Zamioculcas Zamiifolia and Microorganisms Associated on Z. Zamiifolia Leaves

(2016) Maneenuch Toabaita et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Diversity, abundance and activity of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms in fine particulate matter

(2016) Jing-Feng Gao et al.   Scientific Reports

Exploitation of Endophytic Bacteria to Enhance the Phytoremediation Potential of the Wetland Helophyte Juncus acutus

(2016) Evdokia Syranidou et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Plant-Microbe-Metal Interactions: Relevance for Phytoremediation

(2016) Ying Ma et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Assessment of the Air Pollution Level in the City of Rome (Italy)

(2016) Gabriele Battista et al.   Sustainability

Host species identity, site and time drive temperate tree phyllosphere bacterial community structure

(2016) Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe et al.   Microbiome

Particulate matter deposited on leaf of five evergreen species in Beijing, China: Source identification and size distribution

(2015) Yingshi Song et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in environmental technology

(2015) Dana Pokorna et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Air pollution and public health: emerging hazards and improved understanding of risk

(2015) Frank J. Kelly et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH

The Role of Plant–Microbe Interactions and Their Exploitation for Phytoremediation of Air Pollutants

(2015) Nele Weyens et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Bioremediation of Atmospheric Hydrocarbons via Bacteria Naturally Associated with Leaves of Higher Plants

(2015) N. Ali et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOREMEDIATION

Phytoremediation: recent advances in plant-endophytic synergistic interactions

(2015) Amna Ijaz et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Pivotal roles of phyllosphere microorganisms at the interface between plant functioning and atmospheric trace gas dynamics

(2015) Françoise Bringel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Milestones in plant sulfur research on sulfur-induced-resistance (SIR) in Europe

(2015) Elke Bloem et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The Relationship between Urbanization, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in China: An Econometric Perspective Analysis

(2015) Yabo Zhao et al.   Sustainability

Investigation of Ground-Level Ozone and High-Pollution Episodes in a Megacity of Eastern China

(2015) Heng Zhao et al.   PLoS One

Plant traits and taxonomy drive host associations in tropical phyllosphere fungal communities

(2014) Steven W. Kembel et al.   Botany

Diversity of endophytic bacteria in Lolium perenne and their potential to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons and promote plant growth

(2014) M. Kukla et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Uptake of toluene and ethylbenzene by plants: Removal of volatile indoor air contaminants

(2014) Wararat Sriprapat et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Ozone and ozone injury on plants in and around Beijing, China

(2014) Wuxing Wan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Tree and forest effects on air quality and human health in the United States

(2014) David J. Nowak et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Degradation, Phytoprotection and Phytoremediation of Phenanthrene by Endophyte Pseudomonas putida, PD1

(2014) Zareen Khan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Inhalable Microorganisms in Beijing’s PM2.5 and PM10 Pollutants during a Severe Smog Event

(2014) Chen Cao et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Can ornamental potted plants remove volatile organic compounds from indoor air? — a review

(2014) Majbrit Dela Cruz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Assessment of volatile organic compound removal by indoor plants—a novel experimental setup

(2014) Majbrit Dela Cruz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Genome-wide transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis response to sulfur dioxide fumigation

(2014) Jun Zhao et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China

(2014) Ru-Jin Huang et al.   NATURE

Plant signalling in acute ozone exposure

(2014) JULIA P. VAINONEN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest

(2014) S. W. Kembel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microorganisms associated particulate matter: A preliminary study

(2014) Mansour A. Alghamdi et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The Air Quality of a Mediterranean Urban Environment Area and Its Relation to Major Meteorological Parameters

(2014) Athanasios Karagiannidis et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Isolation, plant colonization potential, and phenanthrene degradation performance of the endophytic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. Ph6-gfp

(2014) Kai Sun et al.   Scientific Reports

Beneficial effects of plant-associated microbes on indoor microbiomes and human health?

(2014) Gabriele Berg et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The role of ROS signaling in cross-tolerance: from model to crop

(2014) Ilse Barrios Perez et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Phytoremediation of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene contaminated air by D. deremensis and O. microdasys plants

(2014) Mohammad Mosaddegh et al.   Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering

Endophytic microorganisms—promising applications in bioremediation of greenhouse gases

(2013) Z. Stępniewska et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Forest Filter Effect: Role of leaves in capturing/releasing air particulate matter and its associated PAHs

(2013) Elisa Terzaghi et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Construction of a plant–microbe phytoremediation system: Combination of vetiver grass with a functional endophytic bacterium, Achromobacter xylosoxidans F3B, for aromatic pollutants removal

(2013) Ying-Ning Ho et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Baseline survey of the anatomical microbial ecology of an important food plant: Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)

(2013) Andrea R Ottesen et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Catalytic oxidization of indoor formaldehyde at room temperature – Effect of operation conditions

(2013) Zhiqiang Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Effects of the external carbon sources on the microbes in the simultaneous biological removal of SO2 and NO x process

(2013) Wenbo Zhou et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Transcriptional profiling of Gram-positiveArthrobacterin the phyllosphere: induction of pollutant degradation genes by natural plant phenolic compounds

(2013) Tanja R. Scheublin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Factors affecting xylene-contaminated air removal by the ornamental plant Zamioculcas zamiifolia

(2013) Wararat Sriprapat et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Progress in cultivation-independent phyllosphere microbiology

(2013) Thomas Müller et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Below-ground fine-scale distribution and soil versus fine root detection of fungal and soil oomycete communities in a French beech forest

(2013) Aurore Coince et al.   Fungal Ecology

Formaldehyde degradation by a newly isolated fungus Aspergillus sp. HUA

(2013) D. S. Yu et al.   International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

The physiological importance of developmental mechanisms that enforce proper stomatal spacing inArabidopsis thaliana

(2013) Graham J. Dow et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Community structures of N2-fixing bacteria associated with the phyllosphere of a Holm oak forest and their response to drought

(2013) L. Rico et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Bacterial Communities Associated with the Leaves and the Roots of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2013) Natacha Bodenhausen et al.   PLoS One

Urban air pollution & its assessment in Lucknow City — The second largest city of North India

(2013) Alfred Lawrence et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Isolation ofArthrobacterspecies from the phyllosphere and demonstration of their epiphytic fitness

(2013) Tanja R. Scheublin et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Ultrafine particles in urban ambient air and their health perspectives

(2013) Sushil Kumar et al.   REVIEWS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Distance-Decay Relationships Partially Determine Diversity Patterns of Phyllosphere Bacteria on Tamrix Trees across the Sonoran Desert

(2012) Omri M. Finkel et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The concentrations of culturable microorganisms in relation to particulate matter in urban air

(2012) D. Haas et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Distribution of Methanotrophs in the Phyllosphere

(2012) Hiroyuki IGUCHI et al.   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

The abundant occurrence of hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria in the phyllospheres of cultivated and wild plants in Kuwait

(2012) Husain Al-Awadhi et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Particulate Matter on Foliage of 13 Woody Species: Deposition on Surfaces and Phytostabilisation in Waxes – a 3-Year Study

(2012) Robert Popek et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOREMEDIATION

Leaf microbiota in an agroecosystem: spatiotemporal variation in bacterial community composition on field-grown lettuce

(2012) Gurdeep Rastogi et al.   ISME Journal

Growing Unculturable Bacteria

(2012) E. J. Stewart   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Selection and application of endophytic bacterium Achromobacter xylosoxidans strain F3B for improving phytoremediation of phenolic pollutants

(2012) Ying-Ning Ho et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Exploring Biodiversity in the Bacterial Community of the Mediterranean Phyllosphere and its Relationship with Airborne Bacteria

(2012) Despoina Vokou et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The composition of phyllosphere fungal assemblages of European beech (Fagus sylvatica ) varies significantly along an elevation gradient

(2012) Tristan Cordier et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant species differences in particulate matter accumulation on leaf surfaces

(2012) A. Sæbø et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The Influences of Diesel Particulate Filter Installation on Air Pollutant Emissions for Used Vehicles

(2011) Ying I. Tsai et al.   Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Geographical Location Determines the Population Structure in Phyllosphere Microbial Communities of a Salt-Excreting Desert Tree

(2011) Omri M. Finkel et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pine needles as passive bio-samplers to determine polybrominated diphenyl ethers

(2011) Nuno Ratola et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Detection and isolation of chloromethane-degrading bacteria from the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere, and characterization of chloromethane utilization genes

(2011) Thierry Nadalig et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Bioremediation of volatile oil hydrocarbons by epiphytic bacteria associated with American grass (Cynodon sp.) and broad bean (Vicia faba) leaves

(2011) N.A. Sorkhoh et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Methylobacterium gossipiicola sp. nov., a pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium isolated from the cotton phyllosphere

(2011) M. Madhaiyan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Metaproteogenomic analysis of microbial communities in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of rice

(2011) Claudia Knief et al.   ISME Journal

The potential of epiphytic hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria on legume leaves for attenuation of atmospheric hydrocarbon pollutants

(2011) Nida Ali et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Formaldehyde removal by potted plant–soil systems

(2011) Zhongjun Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Distinctive Phyllosphere Bacterial Communities in Tropical Trees

(2011) Mincheol Kim et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of formaldehyde-responsive genes from golden pothos (Epipremnum aureum)

(2011) Yuichi Tada et al.   Plant Biotechnology

Glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase from golden pothos (Epipremnum aureum) and the production of formaldehyde detoxifying plants

(2011) Yuichi Tada et al.   Plant Biotechnology

Biogeographical diversity of leaf-associated microbial communities from salt-secreting Tamarix trees of the Dead Sea region

(2011) Noga Qvit-Raz et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Use of Ichip for High-Throughput In Situ Cultivation of "Uncultivable" Microbial Species

(2010) D. Nichols et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hybrid pseudomonads engineered by two-step homologous recombination acquire novel degradation abilities toward aromatics and polychlorinated biphenyls

(2010) Hikaru Suenaga et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Phenol degradation by Bacillus cereus: Pathway and kinetic modeling

(2010) Aditi Banerjee et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Assimilation of Formaldehyde in Transgenic Plants Due to the Introduction of the Bacterial Ribulose Monophosphate Pathway Genes

(2010) Li-mei CHEN et al.   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

(2010) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY

The ecology of the phyllosphere: geographic and phylogenetic variability in the distribution of bacteria on tree leaves

(2010) Amanda J. Redford et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Carbon fixation efficiency of plants influenced by sulfur dioxide

(2010) Chung-Yi Chung et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Spatial variability in airborne bacterial communities across land-use types and their relationship to the bacterial communities of potential source environments

(2010) Robert M Bowers et al.   ISME Journal

Hydrocarbon degradation and plant colonization by selected bacterial strains isolated from Italian ryegrass and birdsfoot trefoil

(2010) S. Yousaf et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity and Activity of PAH-Degrading Bacteria in the Phyllosphere of Ornamental Plants

(2010) Chontisak Yutthammo et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Seasonally dynamic fungal communities in the Quercus macrocarpa phyllosphere differ between urban and nonurban environments

(2010) A. Jumpponen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Methanol Assimilation in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1: Demonstration of All Enzymes and Their Regulation

(2010) Hana Šmejkalová et al.   PLoS One

Transgenic plants for enhanced biodegradation and phytoremediation of organic xenobiotics

(2009) P.C. Abhilash et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Air pollution assessment in urban areas and its impact on human health in the city of Quetta, Pakistan

(2009) Syed Zafar Ilyas et al.   Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Quantifying the deposition of particulate matter on climber vegetation on living walls

(2009) Marc Ottelé et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Bioaugmentation with Engineered Endophytic Bacteria Improves Contaminant Fate in Phytoremediation

(2009) Nele Weyens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bacteria associated with oak and ash on a TCE-contaminated site: characterization of isolates with potential to avoid evapotranspiration of TCE

(2009) Nele Weyens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Bacterial endophyte-mediated naphthalene phytoprotection and phytoremediation

(2009) Kieran J. Germaine et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Bacterial Succession on the Leaf Surface: A Novel System for Studying Successional Dynamics

(2009) Amanda J. Redford et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Community proteogenomics reveals insights into the physiology of phyllosphere bacteria

(2009) N. Delmotte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ozone gas is an effective and practical antibacterial agent

(2008) Manju Sharma et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Dust-particle migration around flotation tailings ponds: pine needles as passive samplers

(2008) Ewa Teper   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Nitrogen fixation by phyllosphere bacteria associated with higher plants and their colonizing epiphytes of a tropical lowland rainforest of Costa Rica

(2008) Michael Fürnkranz et al.   ISME Journal

Phyllosphere microbiology with special reference to diversity and plant genotype

(2008) J.M. Whipps et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Establishment of transgenic tobacco hairy roots expressing basic peroxidases and its application for phenol removal

(2008) Lucas G. Sosa Alderete et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Identification and Genetic Characterization of Phenol-Degrading Bacteria from Leaf Microbial Communities

(2008) Amarjyoti Sandhu et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The ecology and biotechnology of sulphate-reducing bacteria

(2008) Gerard Muyzer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Human health effects of air pollution

(2007) Marilena Kampa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Degradation of Low Molecular Weight Volatile Organic Compounds by Plants Genetically Modified with Mammalian Cytochrome P450 2E1

(2007) C. Andrew James et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY