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