Fig. 3

Effects of feeding by Tephritis angustipennis on antioxidant enzyme activities and toxic secondary metabolites contents in flowers of highly resistant (HR) varieties of Aster spp. A-K stands for (A) catalase (CAT), (B) peroxidase (POD), (C) superoxide dismutase (SOD), (D) polyphenol oxidase (PPO), and (E) phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL), (F) Trypsin inhibitor (TI), (G) Chymotrypsin (CI), (H) Malondialdehyde (MDA), (I) tannin (TN), (J) total phenols (TP), and (K) flavonoids (FN), respectively. Data represent means ± standard error of three replicates. Different lower-case letters indicate significant differences among the same species at different hazard periods by one-way ANOVA (P < 0.05, Duncan’s t-test). CK, HP, HM, HH and HE representing different hazard levels (Hazardous period), namely non-harm (excellent quality), slight hazard, moderately hazard, serious hazard and more serious hazard, respectively. The same as below.