Abstract: | The amounts and compositions of the essential oils in the leaves and fruit of Meyer's lemon in the various vegetation periods have been studied. It has been established that as the fruit ripens the amount of essential oils and of monoterpene hydrocarbons in its peel and in the leaves increases.Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. Sukhumi Zonal Experimental Station of Essential-Oil Crops. Sukhumi Experimental Station of Subtropical Crops, All-Union Institute of Plant Growing. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 784–787, November–December, 1985. |