“…Pseudomonas can degrade cellulose ( Jiménez et al, 2014 ) and produce multitudinous antibiotic compounds, which can effectively stem the diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria and fungi ( Haas and Défago, 2005 ). Particularly important, Pseudomonas showed a sky-high degree of resistance to heavy metals, such as Cd, Pb and As ( Al-Ansari et al, 2021 ; Liu et al, 2021 ; Pramanik et al, 2021 ; Sun et al, 2021 ). In addition, several genera with high abundance, such as Shigella , Vibrio and Halomonas , also have high trace element resistance ( Mukherjee et al, 2019 ; Jo et al, 2020 ; Bombaywala et al, 2021 ).…”