Table 2. Amount of each wax compound on cultivar Zhongshuang 9 (ZS9) and Yuyou 19 (YY19) as affected by exogenous hormones (µg cm⁻²).

Compound		Control	SA	MeJA	ACC
Hexacosanic acid	ZS9	0.012 ± 0.002c	0.027 ± 0.004a	0.023 ± 0.002a	0.018 ± 0.002b
	YY19	0.016 ± 0.001ab	0.020 ± 0.003a	0.020 ± 0.005a	0.012 ± 0.002b
Octocosoic acid	ZS9	0.030 ± 0.005b	0.032 ± 0.004b	0.032 ± 0.001b	0.048 ± 0.007a
	YY19	0.027 ± 0.001a	0.023 ± 0.004a	0.028 ± 0.011a	0.021 ± 0.006a
Triacontanoic acid	ZS9	0.053 ± 0.007b	0.053 ± 0.017b	0.068 ± 0.011b	0.141 ± 0.028a
	YY19	0.116 ± 0.003a	0.074 ± 0.050abc	0.066 ± 0.017c	0.077 ± 0.024ab
Lacceroic acid	ZS9	0.008 ± 0.002a	0.011 ± 0.003a	0.010 ± 0.002a	0.010 ± 0.002a
	YY19	0.009 ± 0.001a	0.009 ± 0.001a	0.009 ± 0.001a	0.006 ± 0.001b
Octacosanal	ZS9	0.088 ± 0.003a	0.019 ± 0.004a	0.019 ± 0.013a	0.012 ± 0.006a
	YY19	0.080 ± 0.020a	0.059 ± 0.027ab	0.045 ± 0.014b	0.069 ± 0.007ab
Nonacosanal	ZS9	0.038 ± 0.009a	0.018 ± 0.004b	0.023 ± 0.002b	0.023 ± 0.001b
	YY19	0.047 ± 0.018ab	0.044 ± 0.014ab	0.038 ± 0.011b	0.063 ± 0.011a
Triacontanal	ZS9	0.122 ± 0.039c	0.650 ± 0.073b	0.953 ± 0.063a	0.898 ± 0.033a
	YY19	0.327 ± 0.200a	0.435 ± 0.432a	0.716 ± 0.662a	0.202 ± 0.065a
Heptacosane	ZS9	0.058 ± 0.005a	0.060 ± 0.010a	0.052 ± 0.043a	0.053 ± 0.005a
	YY19	0.122 ± 0.008b	0.145 ± 0.009a	0.125 ± 0.012b	0.149 ± 0.014a
Octacosane	ZS9	0.049 ± 0.004a	0.050 ± 0.010a	0.053 ± 0.004a	0.049 ± 0.003a
	YY19	0.063 ± 0.003a	0.072 ± 0.007a	0.078 ± 0.020a	0.071 ± 0.011a
Nonacosane	ZS9	8.041 ± 0.416ab	7.000 ± 0.754ab	8.060 ± 0.1.220a	5.612 ± 0.418b
	YY19	10.831 ± 0.535ab	8.852 ± 0.1.428b	10.897 ± 1.367ab	11.605 ± 1.760a
Triacontane	ZS9	0.097 ± 0.015ab	0.096 ± 0.007b	0.116 ± 0.012ab	0.146 ± 0.015a
	YY19	0.064 ± 0.039b	0.123 ± 0.020a	0.105 ± 0.006a	0.118 ± 0.021a
Hentriacontane	ZS9	1.242 ± 0.099c	1.732 ± 0.149ab	1.954 ± 0.180a	1.493 ± 0.087abc
	YY19	5.194 ± 2.164a	1.834 ± 0.0.545b	1.750 ± 0.965b	0.711 ± 0.548b
Tritriacontane	ZS9	0.050 ± 0.006ab	0.049 ± 0.007abc	0.043 ± 0.013c	0.074 ± 0.006a
	YY19	0.047 ± 0.012a	0.043 ± 0.014a	0.043 ± 0.006a	0.050 ± 0.012a
10-Octacosanol	ZS9	0.201 ± 0.016a	0.163 ± 0.036a	0.224 ± 0.070a	0.150 ± 0.024a
	YY19	0.226 ± 0.122a	0.268 ± 0.128a	0.237 ± 0.088a	0.232 ± 0.043a
10- Nonacosanol	ZS9	4.088 ± 0.378a	1.418 ± 0.324b	0.891 ± 0.284b	1.872 ± 0.248b
	YY19	0.878 ± 0.289c	4.156 ± 2.328ab	3.124 ± 2.697bc	6.765 ± 0.900a
10-Triacontanol	ZS9	0.244 ± 0.061a	0.056 ± 0.009b	0.071 ± 0.024b	0.042 ± 0.003b
	YY19	0.235 ± 0.081b	0.211 ± 0.095b	0.188 ± 0.084b	0.376 ± 0.091a
10-Hentriacontanol	ZS9	0.006 ± 0.004a	0.010 ± 0.003a	0.004 ± 0.001a	0.016 ± 0.004a
	YY19	0.003 ± 0.001b	0.009 ± 0.007ab	0.004 ± 0.001b	0.014 ± 0.005a
Nonacosanone	ZS9	2.423 ± 0.069c	3.445 ± 0.301ab	3.685 ± 0.711a	2.601 ± 0.188abc
	YY19	3.787 ± 1.187a	4.004 ± 2.257a	4.389 ± 2.040a	2.853 ± 0.536a
1-Hexacosanol	ZS9	0.005 ± 0.004b	0.024 ± 0.005a	0.014 ± 0.003ab	0.016 ± 0.002ab
	YY19	0.076 ± 0.086a	0.008 ± 0.007a	0.017 ± 0.015a	0.006 ± 0.003a
1-Octacosanol	ZS9	0.151 ± 0.022a	0.078 ± 0.024a	0.114 ± 0.051a	0.063 ± 0.009a
	YY19	0.196 ± 0.022ab	0.185 ± 0.039b	0.199 ± 0.049ab	0.251 ± 0.028a
1-Triacontanol	ZS9	0.021 ± 0.005ab	0.014 ± 0.003b	0.014 ± 0.003b	0.028 ± 0.002a
	YY19	0.054 ± 0.028a	0.030 ± 0.001a	0.032 ± 0.011a	0.038 ± 0.016a

Notes.

The data represented the average of four biological replicates plus/minus standard deviation, and different lowercase letters after the values in each row represented significance at P < 0.05 according to least significant difference test.