Table 2.

Metabolic content (mg/100 g F.W.) of the biosynthetic pathway of vitamin E in olive fruit (cv. ‘Koroneiki’) during 10–30 WAF for each of the three successive years in the experimental orchard.

Years	Metabolites	Metabolic content (mg/100 g F.W.) from 10 to 30 WAF
		10	14	16	20	22	24	26	30
1st year	α-tocopherol	31.48 ± 2.64	27.84 ± 1.66	27.11 ± 1.16	25.28 ± 1.23	27.01 ± 1.04	18.80 ± 0.72	18.36 ± 1.26	20.18 ± 0.44
	(β+γ)-tocopherol	0.36 ± 0.01	0.29 ± 0.03	0.28 ± 0.01	0.36 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.03	0.37 ± 0.02	0.34 ± 0.02	0.31 ± 0.02
	δ-tocopherol	0.19 ± 0.02	0.17 ± 0.02	0.21 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.28 ± 0.01	0.24 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01	0.16 ± 0.01
	α-tocotrienol	nd∗	nd∗	nd∗	nd∗	nd∗	nd∗	nd∗	nd∗
	(β+γ)-tocotrienol	0.26 ± 0.02	0.25 ± 0.01	0.23 ± 0.03	0.20 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.02	0.20 ± 0.01	0.23 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.01
2nd year	α-tocopherol	32.65 ± 3.65	24.28 ± 0.49	24.75 ± 3.53	22.75 ± 1.18	19.62 ± 1.26	15.87 ± 2.05	13.61 ± 0.87	14.03 ± 1.43
	(β+γ)-tocopherol	0.58 ± 0.07	0.55 ± 0.01	0.56 ± 0.04	0.59 ± 0.02	0.62 ± 0.03	0.59 ± 0.05	0.57 ± 0.04	0.60 ± 0.05
	δ-tocopherol	0.49 ± 0.06	0.47 ± 0.01	0.50 ± 0.03	0.50 ± 0.01	0.54 ± 0.03	0.54 ± 0.05	0.51 ± 0.03	0.56 ± 0.04
	α-tocotrienol	0.18 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.02	0.19 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.02
	(β+γ)-tocotrienol	0.59 ± 0.08	0.54 ± 0.01	0.57 ± 0.04	0.58 ± 0.02	0.61 ± 0.03	0.61 ± 0.05	0.57 ± 0.04	0.65 ± 0.05
3rd year	α-tocopherol	24.90 ± 2.27	22.73 ± 0.44	14.73 ± 1.35	19.11 ± 0.13	10.38 ± 1.04	14.31 ± 0.39	13.19 ± 0.82	11.47 ± 0.50
	(β+γ)-tocopherol	0.57 ± 0.04	0.55 ± 0.01	0.63 ± 0.05	0.73 ± 0.01	0.52 ± 0.03	0.60 ± 0.02	0.61 ± 0.04	0.57 ± 0.01
	δ-tocopherol	0.53 ± 0.04	0.52 ± 0.01	0.59 ± 0.05	0.67 ± 0.01	0.48 ± 0.03	0.54 ± 0.02	0.56 ± 0.03	0.51 ± 0.01
	α-tocotrienol	0.20 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.02	0.25 ± 0.01	0.18 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.01
	(β+γ)-tocotrienol	0.61 ± 0.04	0.62 ± 0.01	0.67 ± 0.05	0.76 ± 0.01	0.55 ± 0.04	0.60 ± 0.02	0.63 ± 0.04	0.57 ± 0.02

Data are the means of three replications ± SE. ^∗nd, non-detectable.