Table 3.
Comparison of mycotoxin occurrence in hulless barley and oats grown at 2 experimental sites over 3 harvest years. Differences are expressed as p values (Mann-Whitney U Test).
| Mean Concentrations ± Standard Deviation and p Values | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crop | Location | n | DON | T2 | HT2 | NIV | BEA | ENA | ENA1 | ENB | ENB1 |
| barley | 12 | 31 ± 13 | 3 ± 1 | 10 ± 9 | 239 ± 218 | 57 ± 118 | 5 ± 4 | 32 ± 32 | 226 ± 69 | 105 ± 105 | |
| oats | 12 | 25 ± 0 | 4 ± 3 | 11 ± 9 | 68 ± 77 | 10 ± 12 | 3 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 10 ± 5 | 4 ± 4 | |
| 0.166 | 0.113 | 0.832 | 0.022 | 0.069 | 0.079 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
| barley | KM | 6 | 36 ± 18 | 3 ± 1 | 18 ± 6 | 61 ± 51 | 4 ± 2 | 3 ± 0 | 11 ± 9 | 39 ± 31 | 30 ± 25 |
| oats | 6 | 25 ± 0 | 5 ± 3 | 16 ± 9 | 40 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | |
| 0.378 | 0.262 | 0.810 | 0.689 | 0.378 | 0.936 | 0.066 | 0.005 | 0.020 | |||
| barley | ZB | 6 | 25 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 417 ± 161 | 110 ± 154 | 7 ± 5 | 54 ± 33 | 413 ± 201 | 180 ± 101 |
| oats | 6 | 25 ± 0 | 3 ± 2 | 6 ± 6 | 96 ± 106 | 17 ± 14 | 3 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 18 ± 21 | 6 ± 5 | |
| 1.000 | 0.689 | 0.378 | 0.008 | 0.013 | 0.173 | 0.020 | 0.005 | 0.008 | |||
DON–deoxynivalenol, T2–T2-toxin, HT2–HT2-toxin, NIV–nivalenol, BEA–beauvericin, ENA–enniatin A, ENA1–enniatin A1, ENB–enniatin B, ENB1–enniatin B1. Significant values (p < 0.05) are in bold and italics; n.a.–not available.