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. 2017 Aug 8;7:7484. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07774-9

Table 1.

Change of Vitamin E profiles in sweet corn during germination.

Vitamin E Composition	Light treatment				Dark treatment
Vitamin E Composition	Stage1	Stage2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4
α-tocopherol	2.02 ± 0.25^a	1.39 ± 0.15^b	0.80 ± 0.02^c	1.13 ± 0.07^b	1.25 ± 0.14^b	0.63 ± 0.04^c	0.60 ± 0.02^c	0.54 ± 0.03^c
α-tocotrienol	0.76 ± 0.05^a	0.67 ± 0.07^a	0.47 ± 0.02^bc	0.47 ± 0.03^bc	0.51 ± 0.01^b	0.38 ± 0.02^c	0.39 ± 0.03^c	0.29 ± 0.04^d
β-tocopherol	0.14 ± 0.001^a	0.16 ± 0.03^a	0.12 ± 0.01^a	0.13 ± 0.01^a	0.10 ± 0.005^a	0.09 ± 0.004^a	0.10 ± 0.008^a	0.09 ± 0.001^a
γ-tocopherol	1.80 ± 0.19^a	0.83 ± 0.57^b	0.53 ± 0.06^b	0.52 ± 0.05^b	1.44 ± 0.09^a	0.71 ± 0.06^b	0.48 ± 0.03^b	0.34 ± 0.005^b
γ-tocotrienol	3.14 ± 0.20^a	2.32 ± 0.47^b	1.75 ± 0.16^bcd	1.75 ± 0.21^bcd	2.29 ± 0.06^bc	1.60 ± 0.20^bcd	1.35 ± 0.29^cd	1.08 ± 0.12^d
δ-tocopherol	0.24 ± 0.02^a	0.22 ± 0.01^a	0.16 ± 0.01^cd	0.16 ± 0.01^cd	0.21 ± 0.07^b	0.16 ± 0.005^c	0.18 ± 0.007^c	0.14 ± 0.002^d
δ-tocotrienol	0.55 ± 0.04^a	0.49 ± 0.04^a	0.40 ± 0.01^b	0.38 ± 0.04^b	0.39 ± 0.008^b	0.35 ± 0.02^bc	0.42 ± 0.02^b	0.30 ± 0.01^c
Total	9.08 ± 0.01^a	6.72 ± 0.38^b	4.36 ± 0.03^c	4.31 ± 0.08^c	6.20 ± 0.20^b	3.92 ± 0.30^c	3.67 ± 0.16^c	2.78 ± 0.20^d

Unit: mg/100 g DW; significance analysis was carried out within rows and data with different letters indicate significant difference at p < 0.05.