Fungal pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for the production of plant hormone by Pichia fermentans under submerged conditions

Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Table 4 Effect of crude and purified IAA on growth promotion of Vigna radiata seedlings

Treatment	Seedling length (cm)	Lateral roots (numbers)	Weight (g)
Control	2.45^a	5.35^a	0.240^a
Crude IAA	2.46^a	14.1^b	0.250^a
Purified IAA	2.62^a	17.7^c	0.327^b

Different superscripts (a, b, c) show statistically significant difference (P < 0.05) between rows