Acknowledgement
Present research is a part of institutional project “Isolation and
characterization of heavy metal–resistant bacteria and evaluation for
their use in agriculture” funded by Indian Council of Agricultural
Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government
of India. We are thankful to Head, USIC, BBAU Lucknow, for providing
facility of SEM and FTIR analysis and the Head, Division of Plant
Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, for
TEM analysis