Table 5. Effects of seeding dates on the free sugar contents of whole-crop barley cultivated in a paddy field (mg/100 g dry matter unless otherwise stated)

Items	Treatments¹⁾
Items	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5
Fructose	913 ± 77^a	907 ± 64^a	572 ± 25^b	284 ± 11^c	209 ± 15^c
Glucose	1,498 ± 62^a	1,488 ± 72^a	1,371 ± 19^b	1,208 ± 24^c	1,262 ± 45^c
Sucrose	1,878 ± 66^a	1,713 ± 44^b	1,685 ± 59^b	1,508 ± 67^c	1,304 ± 21^d
Total	4,289 ± 202^a	4,108 ± 179^a	3,628 ± 59^b	3,000 ± 53^c	2,775 ± 42^c

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.