Table 3.

Pairwise Spearman rank correlation coefficients (r) between mycotoxin concentrations of DON, DON3G, 3+15-AcDON, ZEN, and α-ZEL (µg/kg) in forage maize samples of four different cultivars (Cv I–IV). n = 120.

Correlation	Cultivar
	“Cv I”	“Cv II”	“Cv III”	“Cv IV”	All Cultivars
DON vs. DON3G	0.907	0.877	0.926	0.833	0.866
DON vs. 3+15-AcDON	0.892	0.888	0.929	0.952	0.915
DON3G vs. 3+15-AcDON	0.883	0.799	0.866	0.815	0.841
DON vs. ZEN	0.704	0.667	0.788	0.696	0.714
DON3G vs. ZEN	0.686	0.579	0.751	0.633	0.662
3+15-AcDON vs. ZEN	0.712	0.631	0.689	0.640	0.668
DON vs. α-ZEL	0.610	0.600	0.615	0.443	0.567
DON3G vs. α-ZEL	0.627	0.537	0.517	0.334	0.504
3+15-AcDON vs. α-ZEL	0.661	0.582	0.647	0.471	0.590
ZEN vs. α-ZEL	0.663	0.593	0.635	0.584	0.619

DON = deoxynivalenol; DON3G = deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside; 3+15-AcDON = sum of 3- and 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol; ZEN = zearalenone; α-ZEL = α-zearalenol.