Abstract As the short- and long-term impacts of climate change are becoming more visible at smaller regional scales, frequent occurrence (absence) erratic precipitation as well water scarcity issues can be identified reliable indicators for predicting meteorological droughts. A supervised declaration drought based on available data requires an understanding reliability consistency indices appro...

The current study aimed to isolate xylanase-producing marine actinobacteria, which is a novel idea; ascribed the challenges associated with culturing of microorganisms. A total 5 actinobacterial colonies were isolated from Kanyakumari sediments. Among them only one isolate, A1 indicated elevated xylanase activity manifesting zone hydrolysis around 20 mm during primary screening. On other hand, ...