Table 3. Effects of seeding dates on the mineral contents of whole-crop barley cultivated in a paddy field (mg/kg dry matter basis unless otherwise stated)

Items	Treatments¹⁾
Items	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5
Ca	10,102 ± 242^a	10,722 ± 360^a	9,260 ± 203^b	5,626 ± 63^c	4,992 ± 180^d
Cu	4 ± 0^a	4 ± 0^a	4 ± 0^a	3 ± 0^b	3 ± 0^b
Fe	348 ± 7^b	427 ± 25^a	352 ± 13^b	198 ± 15^c	182 ± 14^c
K	18,568 ± 361^a	15,015 ± 946^b	9,461 ± 1,177^c	9,434 ± 542^c	9,561 ± 621^c
Mg	479 ± 23^b	679 ± 9^a	754 ± 44^a	526 ± 32^b	374 ± 71c
Mn	26 ± 1^b	29 ± 2^a	25 ± 2^b	19 ± 2^c	21 ± 2^c
Na	1,370 ± 103^a	822 ± 21^b	747 ± 21^b	459 ± 7^c	256 ± 13^d
Zn	18 ± 3^c	23 ± 2^a	23 ± 1^ab	20 ± 2^bc	18 ± 1^c
P	392 ± 38^c	371 ± 15^c	408 ± 30^c	648 ± 21^a	571 ± 37^b
Total	31,308 ± 501^a	28,093 ± 1,206^b	21,033 ± 1,028^c	16,934 ± 501^d	15,978 ± 582^d

Data are expressed as means ± SD.
Means in a row with different superscripts are significantly different (p < 0.05).
T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5 represent the different seeding dates: October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9 and November 16, respectively.