Fig 4. Extent of germination of C. tropicalis in the presence or absence of IAA.

C. tropicalis (0.3 x 107 cells/mL each) was grown in PBS for 0, 1, or 3 h in the presence or absence of IAA. At the indicated time points, an aliquot was taken and the numbers of total cells and germinated cells were counted. The results are the means from triplicate experiments and error bars indicate the means ± standard deviations. * denotes statistical significance, p-value < 0.05.