Toxicity of Nanoparticles against Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Table 5

Drosophila melanogaster flies oral mortality to silver and sulfur nanoparticles at different concentrations after 7 days of exposure.

Nanoparticle	Plant	% Mean adult mortality				% Total mean adult mortality^1 per treatment
		Concentration (ppm)
		10	50	100	200
Silver (Ag)	Fig	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a	3.3a	0.8a
	Loquat	0.0a	0.0a	26.7b	53.3c	20.0b
	Mulberry	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a
	Olive	0.0a	33.3b	60.0c	73.3d	41.7c
	Pistachio	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a	20.0b	5.0a
Sulfur (S)	Citrus	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a	0.0a
Control (water)						0.0a
LSD		27.60				12.21

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 ().