These strains were selected based on their high degradation potential of textile effluent as well as 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase activity. The pure culture of these strains was grown in LB broth at 37 C. Cells were recovered by centrifugation and re-suspended in 0.9% (w/v) NaCl solution and their optical density (OD) was adjusted to 0.7 at 600 nm