Metagenome Analysis of Rhizospheric microbial community of Eichhornia crassipes

Eichhornia crassipes is a hyperaccumulator plant that has the ability to remove heavy metals from water and accumulate them in their tissue and a large number of rhizospheric microorganisms coevolved with the plant and this plant microbe interaction plays an important role in adaptation of plant in the environment and also in remediation of environmental pollution. This project was designed to identify the microbes associated with the rhizosphere of Eichhornia crassipes and their role in heavy metal removal from the water.