Thirdly, another experiment was conducted for the effect of the selected treatment. The selected banana fruit were randomly divided into three groups of 150 fingers each for the following treatments. Fruit of group 1 (control, non-treated for natural ripening) were stored directly at 25 1 C. Fruit of group
2 were treated with 400 nL L 1 1-MCP for 16 h and then stored at
25 1 C. Fruit of group 3 were treated with 50 mL L 1 ethephon for
1 min, air dried at ambient temperature, followed by 400 nL L 1 1-