Table 1 Effect of coating on oxidative enzyme activities; POD, SOD, and CAT in (Ukg⁻¹).

	Days	Control/M	CH-AN	CH-AN-SILICA	CH-AN-SILICA/N
POD (Ukg⁻¹)	0	0.003 ± 0.000^e	0.003 ± 0.000^e	0.003 ± 0.000^e	0.003 ± 0.000^e
	3	0.005 ± 0.001^d	0.006 ± 0.001^d	0.007 ± 0.001^d	0.007 ± 0.001^d
	6	0.007 ± 0.002^b	0.007 ± 0.003^b	0.009 ± 0.001^b	0.009 ± 0.003^b
	9	0.011 ± 0.001^a	0.010 ± 0.001^a	0.010 ± 0.003^a	0.010 ± 0.002^a
	12	0.009 ± 0.003^c	0.007 ± 0.002^c	0.006 ± 0.002^c	0.005 ± 0.001^c
SOD (Ukg⁻¹)	0	3.323 ± 0.006^c	3.323 ± 0.006^e	3.323 ± 0.006^d	3.323 ± 0.006^d
	3	3.383 ± 0.007^b	3.550 ± 0.010^d	3.617 ± 0.006^c	3.627 ± 0.006^c
	6	3.417 ± 0.005^a	3.593 ± 0.006^c	3.703 ± 0.007^b	3.667 ± 0.004^bc
	9	3.423 ± 0.004^a	3.613 ± 0.005^b	3.717 ± 0.004^b	3.837 ± 0.001^b
	12	3.413 ± 0.006^a	3.700 ± 0.010^a	4.103 ± 0.032^a	4.150 ± 0.002^a
CAT (Ukg⁻¹)	0	0.224 ± 0.007^b	0.224 ± 0.007^b	0.224 ± 0.006^b	0.224 ± 0.005^b
	3	0.325 ± 0.001^ab	0.352 ± 0.002^ab	0.391 ± 0.001^a	0.381 ± 0.002^a
	6	0.391 ± 0.001^a	0.461 ± 0.001^a	0.450 ± 0.001^a	0.421 ± 0.001^a
	9	0.381 ± 0.002^a	0.440 ± 0.001^a	0.491 ± 0.002^a	0.441 ± 0.002^a
	12	0.331 ± 0.001^ab	0.435 ± 0.001^a	0.471 ± 0.001^a	0.469 ± 0.001^a

Values within a column (lowercase) are significantly different (p ≥ 0.05). The values in parentheses indicate (SD ±) standard deviation.

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