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Table 6 Sugars present in each plant species and quantity in 1 mg dried extract of plant parts

From: Effect of discriminative plant-sugar feeding on the survival and fecundity of Anopheles gambiae

Plants

Plant part

α-D-Glucose (μg)

β-D-Fructose (μg)

Sucrose (μg)

D-Mannose (μg)

D-Gulose (μg)

D-Galactose (μg)

D-Raffinose (μg)

D-Altrose (μg)

D-Allose (μg)

Total (μg)

H. patens

Flower

5.1

0

12.8

3.0

0

0

0

0

0

20.9

 

Leaf

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

L. camara

Flower

43.8

30.6

2.4

8.6

134.6

0

0

0

0

220

 

Leaf

4.6

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

4.6

R. communis

Flower

23.3

0

0

2.2

0

0

0

0

0

25.5

 

Stem

7.3

15.2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

22.5

 

Leaf

0

0

0

13.4

12.4

0

0

0

0

25.8

S. didymobotrya

Flower

78.8

5.4

2.5

14.8

110.8

7.3

0

0

0

219.6

 

Leaf

2.4

10.5

1.1

0

38.9

0

0

0

0.9

53.8

P. hysterophorus

Flower

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

Leaf

0

0

1.2

0

0

0.8

0

0

0

2

T. sta ns

Flower

58.5

161.7

0.3

3.9

263.3

0

3.95

14.5

0

506.2

 

Leaf

2.0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2.0

r

 

0.94

0.88

0.02

0.75

0.84

-0.06

0.65

0.65

NA

1

Probability

 

0.004*

0.02*

0.95

0.08

0.03*

0.89

0.15

0.15

NA

<0.001*

  1. r is Spearman coefficient of correlation between median survival time of mosquitoes and sugars in preferred parts of plants
  2. * P ≤ 0.05 (significant association of sugar with median survival time).
  3. NA is non applicable