“…and Staphylococcus sp., thus confirming the greater diversity of Cd-tolerant bacteria present in soils of farms cultivated with cocoa. In addition to their ability to act against Cd, the bacterial genera have important functions at the soil level, for Burkholderia sp., Cupriavidus sp., Enterobacter sp., Klebsiella sp., and Lactococcus sp., the ability to fix N, root nodule formation, and biocontrol ability were reported for some species ( Salles et al., 2006 ; Wolińska et al., 2017 ; Harindintwali et al., 2021 ; Higdon et al., 2020 ); Enterobacter sp., Ralstonia sp., Serratia sp., Bacillus sp., Exiguobacterium sp., and Staphylococcus sp., are considered to have the ability to solubilize phosphates and promote plant growth ( Gupta et al., 2019 ; Hirota et al., 2012 ; Blanco-Vargas et al., 2020 ; Sabaté et al., 2020 ; Pandey and Bhatt, 2016 ; Zhang et al., 2020 ), Escherichia sp. has the ability to produce polysaccharides that interact with soil and plants ( Seo and Matthews, 2014 ), and Dermacoccus sp.…”