Table 3.
Differences in the mean values of MS17 maize single kernel attributes between the DropSort fractions and aflatoxin levels.
| Single kernel attributes | DropSort fractions |
Aflatoxin classes |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy kernels (n = 104) | Light kernels (n = 104) | Low AF (≤20 ppb) (n = 137) | High AF (>20 ppb) (n = 69) | |
| Kernel aflatoxin (ppb) | 187 (a) | 2724 (a) | – | – |
| Kernel mass (g) | 0.34 (a) | 0.28 (b) | 0.32 (a) | 0.29 (b) |
| Kernel density (g/cm3) | 0.96 (a) | 0.91 (a) | 0.96 (a) | 0.90 (b) |
| Kernel length (mm) | 11.6 (a) | 11.5 (a) | 11.7 (a) | 11.2 (b) |
| Kernel width (mm) | 8.7 (a) | 8.4 (b) | 8.6 (a) | 8.4 (b) |
| Kernel depth (mm) | 4.5 (a) | 4.1 (b) | 4.2 (a) | 4.4 (a) |
| Kernel volume (mm3) | 361 (a) | 313 (b) | 345 (a) | 321 (b) |
| Kernel sphericity | 0.7 (a) | 0.6 (b) | 0.64 (a) | 0.66 (b) |
The letters in parentheses represent results of two-tail t-test (treatments with different letters are significantly different at 95% level of confidence).