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Table 2 Oil contents (% on DW) of sorghum at different pre-treatments before and after germination

From: Lipids characterization of ultrasound and microwave processed germinated sorghum

Processing type

Growth conditions & treatments

Before germination

After germination

Raw seed

T1

T2

T3

T4

T0

T1

T2

T3

T4

Untreated

6.55 ± 0.25a

-

-

-

-

6.28 ± 0.21b

-

-

-

-

MW

-

7.06 ± 0.26bc

7.32 ± 0.29b

7.54 ± 0.31ab

7.79 ± 0.32a

-

6.77 ± 0.22c

7.02 ± 0.24bc

7.24 ± 0.25b

7.48 ± 0.27ab

US

-

6.79 ± 0.25cd

6.89 ± 0.26c

7.39 ± 0.21ab

7.58 ± 0.28a

-

6.53 ± 0.12de

6.65 ± 0.15d

7.15 ± 0.21bc

7.29 ± 0.23b

MW & US

-

7.10 ± 0.25c

7.43 ± 0.27b

7.61 ± 0.28ab

7.84 ± 0.31a

-

6.81 ± 0.16d

7.14 ± 0.19c

7.34 ± 0.22bc

7.57 ± 0.26ab

  1. Values are mean ± SEM (n = 3). Values in same row within each processing parameter with different letters were significantly different from each other (p ≤ 0. 05)
  2. DW basis: Dry weight basis; T 0 : Control germinated sample;
  3. T 1 , T 2 , T 3 , T 4 : Different treatments
  4. MW: Microwave processing; US: Ultrasonic processing
  5. MW & US: Microwave & ultrasonic combined processing