MATERIALS AND METHODS
Banana fruits of Giant Cavendish cultivar were obtained from Melkassa Research center, Ethiopia. From the col- lected banana fruits, approximately equal sized fruits with no bruises or damage were selected for treatments with different concentrations of gibberellic acid GA3 (100, 200 and 300ppm) separately. The experimental design was a complete randomized design with three replications. For each GA3 treatments, 10 banana fruitswere randomly assigned to prepared concentrations and immersed into their respective concentrations for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes of immersion, fruits were made to dry in air for 30 minutes. The control group was only washed with distilled water and air dried in the same way and then all fruits packed into labeled carton box, and stored for 35 days at temperature of 13 + 2 o C in the lab. Thereafter, fruit quality assessments with respect to the following parameters were carried out 6 times in7 day’s interval.