Table 1.

Growth and bioactive substance (DPA) production by P. variotii on non-edible oil cakes used as solid medium and broths (after 10 days).

Non-edible oil cake	Treatment	Solid medium		Broth
		Growth/day (cm/day)	Spore count (spores/g of substrate)	Dry mycelial weight (g/100 ml)	Spore count (spores/ml)	DPA production (mg/l)
C1	Alone	0.42 ± 0.01c	6.7 × 109	0.29 ± 0.04d	2.7 × 109	102 ± 3.5
	+ PDA (1:1)	0.35c	9.0 × 109	0.15 ± 0.016a	7.9 × 108	110 ± 1.2
	+ dextrose	0.36d	5.1 × 1010	0.31 ± 0.02d	3.4 × 109	135 ± 2.3
C2	Alone	0.44d	5.1 × 109	0.271 ± 0.02d	2.0 × 109	70 ± 1.2
	+ PDA (1:1)	0.32 ± 0.02d	6.2 × 109	0.135 ± 0.005a	3.1 × 108	78 ± 3.5
	+ dextrose	0.23 ± 0.01c	2.9 × 1010	0.28 ± 0.04d	1.9 × 109	83 ± 1.3
C3	Alone	0.25 ± 0.02d	4.5 × 109	0.275 ± 0.02d	2.1 × 109	108 ± 2.1
	+ PDA (1:1)	0.31 ± 0.02d	1.0 × 109	0.13 ± 0.01a	3.0 × 108	116 ± 1.1
	+ dextrose)	0.35 ± 0.01d	2.1 × 1010	0.28 ± 0.04d	1.8 × 109	136 ± 2.5
C4	Alone	0.18 ± 0.015b	7.1 × 108	0.20 ± 0.03b	10 × 107	60 ± 3.4
	+ PDA (1:1)	0.18 ± 0.01c	8.3 × 107	0.12 ± 0.04a	8.7 × 107	52 ± 1.8
	+ dextrose)	0.20c	7.7 × 107	0.18 ± 0.01b	6.5 × 107	45 ± 3.4
Control	PDA (Potato Dextrose Agar)	0.26 ± 0.01c	2.5 × 109	0.249 ± 0.01c	1.5 × 109	91 ± 1.0

C1, Jatropha oil cake; C2, Neem oil cake; C3, Karanja oil cake; C4, Mahua oil cake. Same letter used in each column indicates insignificant difference among the treatments (p < 0.05) according to DMRT. Value are means of n = 4.