After 24 h germination, the total microbial populations in
millets treated by SAEW1, SAEW2 and SAEW3 reached to 7.41,
7.27 and 7.26 log10CFU g1, respectively; while the total microbial
population with TW treatment was 8.38 log10CFU g1. SAEW2 and
SAEW3 treatments have better disinfection efficacies than that of
SAEW1 group (P < 0.05). However, there were no significant differences
between SAEW2 and SAEW3 treatments. The main difference
among these three SAEW was the ACC (Table 1). The results
showed that SAEW with higher ACC (15 and 30 mg/L) has stronger
disinfection efficacy than that of lower ACC (5 mg/L), which is in
agreement with the previous work (Hao et al., 2012). The similar
results were obtained after 48 and 72 h germination (Table 3).
Generally, current results suggested the all the SAEW treatments
could effectively reduce the risk of the microorganism contamination
during the germination of millet compared with TW treatment
as control, which is consistent with the previous work