Toxicity of Nanoparticles against Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Table 4

Contact toxicity of the silver and sulfur nanoparticles of plant origin at different concentrations to Drosophila melanogaster pupae during its early pupation without previous experience with NPs.

Nanoparticle	Plant	% Mean pupal mortality				% Total mean pupal mortality^1 per treatment
		Concentration (ppm)
		10	50	100	200
Silver (Ag)	Fig	0.0a	46.7d	50.0c	53.3d	37.5c
	Loquat	3.3a	20.0b	30.0b	43.3bc	24.2b
	Mulberry	10.0b	33.3c	46.7c	46.7cd	34.2bc
	Olive	23.3c	40.0cd	53.3c	63.3e	45.0c
	Pistachio	0.0a	0.0a	3.3a	36.7b	10.0a
Sulfur (S)	Citrus	0.0a	0.0a	3.3a	10.0a	3.3a
Control (water)						0.0a
LSD		9.67				12.56

Values followed by the same letter within a row are not significantly different ().
¹Values followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different ().