Endophytic fungi are fungi that live in plant tissues without causing disease symptoms
and abnormalities in plants. This study aims to obtain endophytic fungal isolates from local
aromatic rice and screening of their ability to produce the IAA hormone as a plant growth
promoter. Totally 16 endophytic fungal isolates were isolated from aromatic rice tissue of Pulu
Mandoti. Ten isolates obtained from stem, three isolates from the root and three isolates from
leaf tissue. The ability of endophytic fungal isolates in producing hormones IAA varied from
0.635 to 2.651 mgl-1. Similarly, the ability to dissolve phosphate also varied from 0.005 – 3.719
mgl-1, and there is only 1 isolates that caused abnormal growth in rice seedlings.r