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Published in final edited form as: J Environ Sci Health C Environ Carcinog Ecotoxicol Rev. 2019 Oct 29;37(4):330–355. doi: 10.1080/10590501.2019.1676600

Table 2.

Seed germination rates of the three beans under 20 °C for 3 days.

		Black eye (%)	Garbanzo (%)	Lentil (%)
Control	Water	96.7 ± 1.3	94.5 ± 1.5	65.9 ± 2.0
	Citrate	94.3 ± 1.7	95.0 ± 2.4	65.1 ± 2.3
[AgNP], ppm	2	96.8 ± 1.7	89.3 ± 2.1^*	84.7 ± 1.6^*
	5	94.2 ± 2.0	86.1 ± 1.5^*	86.9 ± 1.4^*
	10	93.8 ± 2.3	87.9 ± 2.2^*	85.6 ± 1.5^*
	20	93.2 ± 1.3	84.6 ± 2.8^*	84.3 ± 2.2^*
	50	95.3 ± 1.7	88.4 ± 1.8^*	81.9 ± 2.0^*

Notes: Sodium citrate (citrate) of 1.3 ppm is used as control group.

Significance is confirmed by one-way ANOVA, p < 0.05.