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Pollution has arisen as a serious environmental concern to the present world after industrialization of human societies. It has severely affected our air, soil and water sources. Looking to its global, national, regional and local dimensions, it is now imperative to check it at each and every level. In the present study, 8 samples (3 Yamuna water samples, 3 tannery effluent samples and 2 textile effluent samples), were collected from different sites of Yamuna and exit points of textile and tannery Industries. Water and effluent samples were analysed for various physicochemical parameters (pH, TDS, hardness, chloride and BOD) using conventional methods. Afterwards these samples were utilized for isolation of the native bacterial species. All the samples were showing higher than the standard values for TDS (500mg/l), hardness (80-100 mg/l), chloride (250mg/l) and BOD (30mg/l). It was observed that the tannery effluents were showing maximum TDS values(1190-1240mg/l), followed by textile effluents (1190 and 1210mg/l) and Yamuna water (530-1180mg/l).Similarly, in case of chloride content, highest concentration range(828.8-1598mg/l)was shown by tannery effluents. pH value was nearly neutral for Yamuna water, slightly acidic in case of textile effluents and more acidic for tannery samples. Highest range of hardness values were observed for the tannery effluents (860-880mg/l) followed by textile effluents (760 and 860mg/l). The BOD values were nearly similar for all the samples with maximum values being observed for tannery effluents (42-48 mg/l). Thus it can be inferred that all the samples were highly polluted and need to be treated by suitable methods. There were 11 cultures purified, that could be employed in bioremediation purposes.

Studying symbiotic association can provide principles to improve crop yield under harsh conditions. In present study, influence of endophytes was studied on seedling emergence and growth of plumule and radicle of Pennisetum typhoides. The plants were sterilized on surface to prevent contaminations and then macerated in disinfected pestle and mortar to obtain pure colonies of in-habitat bacterial colonies on King's B media, Nutrient agar and Potato dextrose agar using conventional methods. From 08 plant species, 319 endophytic bacterial cultures were isolated. The isolated endophytes were applied on seeds of Pennisetum typhoides to check the influence on seedling emergence, and growth of radicle and plumule. Out of the 319 cultures, 224 (70.22%) cultures were inhibiting seed germination and growth, while 95 (29.8%) cultures were promoting growth of shoot and/or root of Pennisetum typhoides. Of these 95 growth promoting cultures, 49 (51.6 %) cultures were promoting growth of both shoot and root; 42 (44.2 %) were promoting shoot but inhibiting root growth and 4 (4.21%) were promoting root, but inhibiting shoot growth. Plant species Catharanthus roseus had maximum percentage of inhabitant cultures (58%) that promoted growth of shoot and root. Microbiological characterization of growth promotory cultures revealed that major number of bacteria belongs to Gram positive bacillus (21 cultures) group followed by Gram negative bacillus (16 cultures) group. The mechanism of growth promotion was observed as nitrogen fixation alone (38 cultures), phosphate solubilization along with nitrogen fixation (4 cultures) and other methods (7 cultures). The isolated endophytic strains have the potential to be used as seed inoculants or co-inoculants for improvement in growth, development and yields and thus help in sustainable development in the field of agriculture.

Dye׳s residues in textile effluents are hazardous for humans and animals health. Such pollutants can be degraded into non-harmful molecules using biological approaches that are considered cheaper and ecologically safer. Isolated 15 bacterial cultures from soil that could be used in biological system were showed decolorization capacity for Acid Green dye (33.9% to 94.0%) using thin layer chromatography and broth culture method. The most promising cultures (AMC3) to decolorize Acid green Dye (94.6%) was re-coded as NSDSUAM for submitting at IMTECH, Chandigarh for sequencing. The 16SrRNA sequencing suggested that it can be a variant of Pseudomonas geniculata (99.85% identical similarity) with difference of 2 base pairs to reference strain Pseudomonas geniculata ATCC 19374(T). Thus present study proposed dye decolorizing efficiency of the isolated strain of Pseudomonas geniculata that was previously unnoticed. The sequence is deposited in NCBI GenBank with the accession number KP238100.

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