TABLE 3.

Plant growth promotion following algal treatment.

Group	Algae species	Host plant	Treatment	Product applied	References
Prokaryotic cyanobacteria	Calothrix ghosei, Hapalosiphon intricatus, Nostoc muscorum, Westiellopsis prolifica, Calothrix membranacea	Wheat	Seed soaking	Filtrated supernatant	Karthikeyan et al., 2009
	Anabaena laxa and Calothrix elenkinii	Coriander, cumin, and fennel	Soil application	Cell culture	Kumar et al., 2013
	Nostoc sp. VICCRI	Rice	Soil application	Cell culture	Innok et al., 2009
	Anabaena variabilis	Rice	Soil application	cell culture	Singh and Datta, 2007
Eukaryotic green algae	Chlorella vulgaris	Wheat	Foliar application	Water soluble extract	Shaaban, 2001a
	C. vulgaris	Maize	Soil application	Water soluble extract	Shaaban, 2001b
	C. vulgaris	Lettuce	Soil application	Dried cell extract	Faheed and Fattah, 2008
	C. vulgaris, Scenedesmus quadricauda	Tomato	Hydroponic system	Co-cultivation with plant	Barone et al., 2019
	C. vulgaris, S. quadricauda	Sugar beet	Hydroponic system	Dried cell extract	Barone et al., 2018
	C. vulgaris	Tomato and cucumber	Seed soaking	Cell culture	Bumandalai and Tserennadmid, 2019
	Chlorella fusca	Barely, wheat, lettuce, pepper, melon, cucumber, perilla, onion, radish, and turnip	Soil application	Cell culture	Kim et al., 2012
	C. fusca	Spinach	Foliar or soil application	Cell culture	Kim et al., 2018b
	Chlorella pyrenoidosa	Soybean	Soil application	Cell culture	Dubey and Dubey, 2010
	Chlorococcum infusionum	Tomato	Hydroponic system	Co-cultivation with plant	Zhang et al., 2017
	Nannochloropsis oculata	Tomato	Soil application	Dried cell extract	Coppens et al., 2016
Microalgae consortia	Chlorella, Scenedesmus, Chlorococcum, Chroococcus, Phormidium, Anabaena, Westiellopsis, Fischerella, and Spirogyra	Wheat	Soil application	Cell culture	Renuka et al., 2016
	C. ghosei, H. intricatus, and Nostoc sp.	Wheat	Soil application		Karthikeyan et al., 2007
	Nostoc, Anabaena, Westiellopsis, Aulosira, and Scytonema	Rice	Soil application	Cell culture	Paudel et al., 2012
Cyanobacteria–other microbe consortia	Unidentified cyanobacteria and rhizobacteria	Wheat	Soil application	Cell culture	Nain et al., 2010
	Anabaena oscillarioides CR3, Brevundimonas diminuta PR7, and Ochrobactrum anthropi PR10	Rice	Soil application	Cell culture	Rana et al., 2015
	A. torulosa and Trichoderma viride	Maize	Soil application	Extracted biofilms	Sharma et al., 2020