Erythritol, at insecticidal doses, has harmful effects on two common agricultural crop plants
Fig 3
Erythritol delays seed germination in corn.
Mean (± 1 SE) number of days to seed germination for A) corn and B) tomato over 18 days at 6 different treatment concentrations of erythritol. For each species, seeds were treated in petri dishes (4 seeds per dish; 3 dishes per treatment group) and the mean days to germination was calculated for each petri dish. Note that no seeds germinated in the 2000 mM treatment group for corn and the 500 mM, 1000 mM, and 2000 mM treatment groups for tomato, so these treatment groups were not included in the analysis. Means with the same letter are not significantly different from each other (Tukey HSD test, p < 0.05).