Table 3.

Repeated measures ANOVA table carried out with the contents (mg/g DW) of phenolic compounds found in the stems of three olive cultivars (Giarraffa, Leccino and Maurino) irrigated (CTRL) or exposed to drought (DS).

Compound	quercetin-3-O-glucoside	fraxamoside	quercetin
Cultivar (C)
Leccino	2.33	2.249	1.126
Maurino	1.459	0	0.746
Giarraffa	2.324	0	0.781
p-value	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Treatment (T)
Control	2.021	0.812	0.878
Stressed	2.055	0.687	0.891
p-value	0.819	0.692	0.679
Time
t0	2.303	0.853	1.024
t2	2.276	0.868	1.015
t4	1.535	0.528	0.613
C x T
p-value	0.761	< 0.001	0.006

Samples were taken at the beginning of the drought stress (t0) and two (t2) and four (t4) weeks after the start of water withholding. Each value represents the mean.