Evaluation of plants and soil contamination to heavy metals and bacteria and endogenous Coliforms abundance in plant aerial parts in Ahangaran mine of Mallayer,Hamedan

Heavy metals are harmful to living cells, especially humans, animals, plants and microorganisms. The purpose of this study was evaluate the effect of soil and plant contamination on the abundance of endogenous bacteria or plants endophyte in two contaminated and non- contaminated soils. At the beginning, it was sampled from lead mining soils, the agricultural land around it and also from the aerial parts of the 8 plants grown in the soils mentioned. The concentrations of lead, zinc and cadmium were measured in the soil and leaves of the collected plants and counting of cultivated endogenous bacteria were performed. Investigation of soil and plant contamination showed that the concentration of heavy metals in samples taken from the mine soil is remarkably larger than the soil of agricultural land. The ability of plants to absorb metals was very different and the highest concentration of lead was observed in Mentha pulegium and the lowest was in convolvulus arvensis and the highest zinc concentrations was in Echinops echinatus and the lowest was in Euphorbia seguieriana Neck. The bacterial count showed that the abundance of bacteria in soils and plants grown in uncontaminated soils to heavy metals was low and against them in soils and plants grown in contaminated soils is considerably lower. Among the plants grown in contaminated soils, the average logarithm abundance of the bacteria cultivated on NA were the highest in the Senecio vulgaris and the cultivated bacteria on EMB were the most in the convolvulus arvensis.