Table 2.

Yield of fungal extracts and reduction in ferric ion activity of standard and endophytic fungi

S/N	Standard and Fungal code	Yield of endophytic fungi extract (mg) in 200 g of rice medium	Absorbance readings at varying concentrations (μg/ml)
			62.5	125	250	500
1.	Gallic acid	–	0.479 ± 0.011	0.486 ± 0.004	0.499 ± 0.009	0.521 ± 0.004
2.	ZA 161	0233	0.277 ± 0.001*	0.302 ± 0.002*	0.333 ± 0.005*	0.460 ± 0.009*
3.	ZA 162	1390	0.212 ± 0.017*	0.240 ± 0.003*	0.233 ± 0.021*	0.453 ± 0.086
4.	ZA 163	0044	0.304 ± 0.002*	0.310 ± 0.005*	0.424 ± 0.009*	1.190 ± 0.001*
5.	ZA 164	0080	0.219 ± 0.005*	0.240 ± 0.006*	0.278 ± 0.006*	0.324 ± 0.006*
6.	CA 041	0900	0.296 ± 0.005*	0.412 ± 0.009*	0.843 ± 0.011*	1.070 ± 0.038*
7.	CA 042	1280	0.230 ± 0.003*	0.238 ± 0.005*	0.453 ± 0.118	0.932 ± 0.002*
8.	CA 043	0930	0.233 ± 0.004*	0.256 ± 0.005*	0.478 ± 0.047	0.994 ± 0.002*
9.	FE 081	1650	0.219 ± 0.007*	0.249 ± 0.005*	0.280 ± 0.002*	0.387 ± 0.011*
10.	FE 082	1247	0.300 ± 0.012*	0.320 ± 0.002*	0.382 ± 0.021*	0.852 ± 0.008*
11.	FE 084	1960	0.239 ± 0.010*	0.245 ± 0.005*	0.336 ± 0.011*	0.869 ± 0.064*
12.	CU 061	2002	0.428 ± 0.046	0.357 ± 0.010*	0.249 ± 0.004*	0.142 ± 0.003*
13.	CU 062	0066	0.452 ± 0.018	0.472 ± 0.007	0.316 ± 0.048	0.179 ± 0.019*
14.	MO 211	0044	0.307 ± 0.007*	0.341 ± 0.012*	0.351 ± 0.004*	0.440 ± 0.007*
15.	MO 212	1402	0.236 ± 0.004*	0.272 ± 0.007*	0.356 ± 0.034	0.441 ± 0.021
16.	NA 021	0539	0.224 ± 0.007*	0.251 ± 0.004*	0.252 ± 0.020*	0.301 ± 0.005*
17.	NA 022	0166	0.263 ± 0.001*	0.330 ± 0.008*	0.367 ± 0.004*	0.462 ± 0.003*
18.	LO 261	1149	0.259 ± 0.005*	0.332 ± 0.005*	0.490 ± 0.006	0.803 ± 0.011*
19.	GE 091	1010	0.352 ± 0.002*	0.400 ± 0.003*	0.640 ± 0.024*	0.977 ± 0.009*

Absorbance readings are expressed as mean ± SEM. * p < 0.01 significant difference between concentrations of same extract