The microbial growth performance of both MA and EM in individual
bioremediation and symbiotic MAeEM bioremediation
mode were shown in Fig. 2. It could be noted that the cell density of
MA in symbiotic MAeEM bioremediation of 3.53 107 ± 4.02 105
were not significantly different as compared to the individual MA
phytoremediation mode (Table 2). Both bioremediation modes of
MA reach the maximum cell density on 7d. Larger MA inoculation
in symbiotic MAeEM bioremediation contributed to the higher MA
cell density. Additionally, bacterial growth performance in EM
bioremediation was mostly recorded higher than those of the
symbiotic MAeEM bioremediation.