Figure 1.

Shoot (a), seeds (b), root (c), and total (d) biomass of pea SGE (unfilled columns), SGECd^t (filled columns), and B. juncea (gray columns) grown in uncontaminated or Cd-supplemented soil. Treatments: -Cd-M—uncontaminated soil with uninoculated plants, -Cd+M—uncontaminated soil with inoculated plants, +Cd-M—Cd-supplemented soil with uninoculated plants, +Cd+M—Cd-supplemented soil with inoculated plants. Plants were inoculated with a microbial consortium consisting of Variovorax paradoxus 5C-2, Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae RCAM1066, and Glomus sp. 1Fo. Vertical bars show standard errors. Different letters show significant differences between treatments (least significant difference test, p < 0.05, n = 20). DW stands for dry weight. Plants were analyzed on the 83rd day after planting.