2.2. Identification and culture media Single isolate showing the highest activity was selected for fur ther studies and the isolate was identified using conventional as well as molecular technique (Giovanoni et al., 1991). DNA was Bacterial Genomic DNA (prep) Kit (Chromous Biotech, and was checked for purity by agarose gel electro- phones is. 16SrDNA primers 27F (5 AGAGTTTGATCATGGCTCAG 3 and 1492R (5' ACGGTTACCTTGTTACGACTT 3 were used to amplify the gene in isolated genomic DNA. The amplified PCR product was sequenced and these sequences were subjected to BLAST similarity analysis and aligned using CLUSTAL-W to identify the nearest taxa with NCBI GenBank data base. The accession number obtained for the identified isolate was deposited under the number X262392 in GenBank. Phylogenetic tree was constructed using Neighbor-joining (NU) method using Mega version- 6. The identified isolate was inoculated (OD 1.0 at 620 nm) into sterilized modified Glucose Yeast Peptone (GYP) medium con stituting glucose 1 g/L yeast 5 g/L, peptone 10 glL, MgSO4 0.3 glL and MnSO4 0.1 g/L and olive oil 10 ml/L and incubated at 20 C (to provide psychrotrophic conditions) with agitation at 150 rpm India) for 3 days. After the incubation period. 1 ml of this ulture was used as mother culture to inoculate agro-waste media.