Table 2.
Chemical composition and relative amount of essential oil at 4 mm from the cut surface in stems pruned in air, water, AVG or AsA after 6 weeks treatment and prior to pruning (CK).
| No. | Compound name | Relative amount (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pruning in air | Pruning in dH2O | Pruning in AVG | Pruning in AsA | CK | |||
| 1 | (E)-.beta.-Famesene | 0.05 ± 0.01a | 0.06 ± 0.01a | –b | –b | –b | |
| 2 | .alpha.-Farnesene | 0.28 ± 0.03a | 0.32 ± 0.03a | –b | –b | –b | |
| 3 | 2-Cyclohexen-1-ol, 2-methyl-5-(1-methylethenyl)-, cis- | 1.58 ± 0.13a | 1.67 ± 0.15a | 0.12 ± 0.01b | 0.26 ± 0.01b | –c | |
| 4 | 1,5-Heptadiene, 3,3-dimethyl-, (E)- | 1.49 ± 0.09a | 1.39 ± 0.11a | –c | 0.11 ± 0.02b | –c | |
| 5 | 2-Isopropenyl-5-methylhex-4-enal | 0.67 ± 0.04a | 0.71 ± 0.06a | –b | –b | –b | |
| 6 | 2-Cyclohexene-1-carboxaldehyde, 2,6,6-trimethyl- | 0.92 ± 0.10a | 0.81 ± 0.09a | –c | 0.53 ± 0.03b | –c | |
| 7 | Citronellol | 0.26 ± 0.01a | 0.23 ± 0.01a | –b | –b | –b | |
| 8 | Butanoic acid, 3-hexenyl ester, (Z)- | 1.76 ± 0.12a | 1.89 ± 0.15a | 0.53 ± 0.07b | 0.69 ± 0.05b | –c | |
| 9 | Nerolidol | 0.56 ± 0.03a | 0.48 ± 0.04a | –b | –b | –b | |
The same letters indicate that the difference is not significant at the 0.05 level (p > 0.05, Duncan’s), “–”means not detected. All data are shown as mean ± standard deviation.