Table 5.

Prevalence of the most abundant terpenes in milk (proportion of individual peak area over total peak area, %) distinguished by breed and period.

Terpene	Breed			Period		SEM	Significance
	Ho	Mo	Va	June	July		Breed	Period	Breed × period
Limonene	26.7	30.1	17.0	29.4	19.8	3.96	ns	ns	ns
β-Caryophyllene	21.2	23.5	26.8	19.2	28.4	2.73	ns	†	ns
γ-Terpinene	10.56	12.15	7.96	8.98	11.47	1.323	ns	ns	ns
α-Pinene	8.75	9.61	10.72	10.03	9.36	0.599	ns	ns	ns
β-Pinene	8.71	8.80	10.85	7.90	11.01	0.891	ns	ns	ns
α-Caryophyllene	3.49	3.15	5.03	2.56b	5.21a	0.602	ns	*	ns
Camphene	3.37	3.43	4.55	2.29b	5.27a	0.639	ns	*	ns
β-Myrcene	2.30	2.82	2.24	3.22	1.69	0.363	ns	†	ns
Terpinolene	2.00	1.74	2.83	1.44	2.94	0.394	ns	†	ns
Sabinene	1.29	1.43	1.96	1.76	1.36	0.170	ns	ns	ns
α-Phellandrene	0.32	0.61	0.63	0.30	0.74	0.129	ns	ns	ns

Significance levels:

^*p ≤ 0.05,

^†p ≤ 0.10, ns p > 0.10.

^{a, b}Least square means with different superscript letters significantly differ at p < 0.05.

Ho, Holstein; Mo, Montbéliarde; Va, Valdostana Red Pied.