The selected A3CK and A7CKstrains have nitrogen-fixing
ability asit was grown in N2 free medium and nitrogenase was
estimated by acetylene reduction assay (Fig. 5 and Table8).
Further,the isolated bacterial strains were found to possess certain
PGPR traits including ACC deaminase activity (Table8). Saleh and
Glick (2001) also reported the IAA production by E. cloacae as plant
growth promoting rhizobacteria but not assymbiont