Table 1.

Reported cases of successful bioremediation using endophytic bacteria (adapted from Table 2 in Ryan et al. [73]).

Compound	Plants used	Microbes used	Reference
PCBs, TCP	Wheat (Triticum spp.)	Herbaspirillum sp. K1	Mannisto et al. [69]
Chlorobenzoic acids	Wild rye (Elymus dauricus)	Pseudomonas aeruginosa R75 Pseudomonas savastanoi CB35	Siciliano et al. [74]
Pesticide 2,4-D	Pea (Pisum sativum)	Pseudomonas putida VM1450	Germaine et al. [75]
VOCs and toluene Toluene MTBE, BTEX, TCE	Yellow lupine (Lupinus luteus L.) Poplar (Populus) Poplar (Populus cv. Hazendans and cv. Hoogvorst)	Burkholderia cepacia G4 Burkholderia cepacia Bu61 (pTOM-Bu61) Pseudomonas sp.	Barac et al. [76] Taghavi et al. [77] Germaine et al. [78] Porteus-Moore et al. [79]
HCs Naphthalene	Pea (Pisum sativum)	Pseudomonas putida VM1441 (pNAH7)	Germaine et al. [80]
Explosives TNT, RDX, HMX	Poplar tissues (Populus deltoidesnigra DN34)	Methylobacterium populi BJ001	Van Aken et al. [81,82]