Abstract
Following an increased interest in management practices designed to reduce posed phytotoxicity during phytoremediation experiments, crude oil polluted soil and variants from conditioners-aided phytoremediation experiment were subjected to terminal restriction fragment polymorphism (t-RFLP) to evalute the biodiversity of bacterial microflora of polluted soil and amendments conditions. Genetic fingerprinting showed that hydrocarbons stress led to depletion of the genetic resources of soil microflora and to a radical change in its qualitative composition. The amended stressed soils not only has a greater number of species present, but the individuals in the community are distributed more equitably among these species. Non-uniform marginal regain of community was clear with applied conditioner. Positive associations, however were observed with conditioner and phyto-assisted clean-up attempts.
Key words: Crude oil pollution, soil conditioners, microbial diversity, phytoremediation, environment.
