Table 3 Yield and chelating activity of T. algeriensis essential oils during the vegetative and the flowering stages. Coding numbers of populations' locations: see Table 1

1

2.68 ± 0.58^b

180 ± 15^d

2.38 ± 0.23^b

190 ± 17^bc

ns

ns

2

3.66 ± 0.28^c

140 ± 15^c

3.66 ± 1.0^c

130 ± 0.0^ab

ns

ns

3

2.70 ± 0.30^b

50 ± 5^a

2.25 ± 0.01^b

240 ± 40^c

ns

*

4

1.70 ± 0^a

86 ± 5^ab

1.44 ± 0.19^a

70 ± 20^a

ns

ns

5

3.0 ± 0^b

80 ± 5^a

1.35 ± 0.10^a

140 ± 60^ab

**

ns

6

1.85 ± 0.22^a

120 ± 45^bc

1.68 ± 0.10^ab

120 ± 80^ab

ns

ns

7

1.88 ± 0^a

76 ± 5^a

1.03 ± 0.06^a

68 ± 3^a

**

ns

8

1.76 ± 0^a

280 ± 40^e

1.23 ± 0.44^a

100 ± 45^a

ns

**