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. 2005 Aug 10;96(4):727–736. doi: 10.1093/aob/mci224

Table 3.

Effect of 8 h anaerobic, micro-aerobic and aerobic treatment in the dark, on the rates of production for acetaldehyde, ethanol and CO2 by batches of three 14-d-old FR13A and CT6241 rice plants, measured at the end of the treatment

Acetaldehyde (μL h−1 g−1 f. wt)
Ethanol (μL h−1 g−1 f. wt)
CO2 (μL h−1 g−1 f. wt)
O2 (%)
FR13A
CT6241
FR13A
CT6241
FR13A
CT6241
0·00 0·90 ± 0·13a 0·52 ± 0·04A 55 ± 6j 55 ± 5j 115 ± 16t 93 ± 20t
0·05 5·5 ± 1·0b 3·40 ± 0·15B 47 ± 9k 46 ± 2k 150 ± 40u 193 ± 2u
0·10 4·4 ± 0·4c 3·1 ± 0·5c 31 ± 2l 31 ± 4l 100 ± 7v 154 ± 13V
0·15 2·60 ± 0·16d 1·60 ± 0·10D 9·8 ± 1·9m 14·0 ± 0·7M 124 ± 8x 163 ± 11X
0·20 0·77 ± 0·12e 0·64 ± 0·10e 3·2 ± 0·3N 6·0 ± 1·3n 140 ± 6y 149 ± 8y
0·25 0·80 ± 0·14f 0·33 ± 0·09F 5·8 ± 0·1o 4·5 ° 0·8o 115 ± 9z 180 ± 40z
0·30 0·35 ± 0·05g 0·14 ± 0·05G 1·43 ± 0·06p 2·30 ± 0·08P 138 ± 11w 156 ± 9w
0·50 0·10 ± 0·02h 0·10 ± 0·02h 0·86 ± 0·15r 0·9 ± 0·1r 117 ± 8q 102 ± 10q
20·9 0·14 ± 0·04i 0·10 ± 0·02i 0·75 ± 0·04s 0·75 ± 0·04s 140 ± 20a 201 ± 6A

All values are means with standard errors of 4–5 individual experiments. For each volatile at each O2 concentration, means for the two cultivars showing different superscript letters are significantly different at P < 0·05 (Student's t-test).