TY - JOUR AU - Gu, Yunfu AU - Wang, Yingyan AU - Sun, Yihao AU - Zhao, Ke AU - Xiang, Quanju AU - Yu, Xiumei AU - Zhang, Xiaoping AU - Chen, Qiang PY - 2018 DA - 2018/05/08 TI - Genetic diversity and characterization of arsenic-resistant endophytic bacteria isolated from Pteris vittata, an arsenic hyperaccumulator JO - BMC Microbiology SP - 42 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Alleviating arsenic (As) contamination is a high-priority environmental issue. Hyperaccumulator plants may harbor endophytic bacteria able to detoxify As. Therefore, we investigated the distribution, diversity, As (III) resistance levels, and resistance-related functional genes of arsenite-resistant bacterial endophytes in Pteris vittata L. growing in a lead-zinc mining area with different As contamination levels. SN - 1471-2180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-018-1184-x DO - 10.1186/s12866-018-1184-x ID - Gu2018 ER -