Table 1.

HIP assay in transgenic maize seeds expressing A. niger phytase

Event no.	Construct	Seed no.	Amount of inorganic phosphate (mg/g)ǂ
JB-UMI29-17Z	pZSPPHY	2	2.54 ± 0.05a
		3	2.35 ± 0.06b
		7	1.89 ± 0.05c
JB-UMI29-30Z	pZSPPHY	6	0.90 ± 0.02e
		8	0.79 ± 0.01e
JB-UMI29-20G	pTOSPPHY	4	0.97 ± 0.01e
		5	1.34 ± 0.01d
JB-UMI29-22G	pTOSPPHY	1	0.98 ± 0.02e
UMI29 control			0.51 ± 0.08f
lpa2			2.73 ± 0.27a

^ǂEach treatment was replicated three times and the values presented are mean ± SE, followed by alphabets to imply significant difference (p ≤ 0.05) after grouping of treatment means after ANOVA by LSD and values with the same letter are not significantly different