Changes of Peel Essential Oil Composition of Four Tunisian Citrus during Fruit Maturation

Table 1

Yields (%) of peels essential oils from four cultivars of citrus at different ripening stages.

Ripening stage	Bitter orange	Lemon	Orange maltaise	Mandarin
Stage 1	0.23^Bb	1.30^Aa	0.13^Cb	0.22^Cb
Stage 2	0.12^Cd	0.48^Bc	0.74^Ab	2.70^Aa
Stage 3	0.46^Ac	0.62^Bbc	0.52^Bc	1.13^Ba

Means of three replicates. (Values with different superscripts are significantly different at 𝑃<0.05). Caps superscripts (comparison between stages). Small superscripts (comparison between citrus species).