TSSC was determined on juice extracted from a slice of pericarp from the equatorial region of the fruit using a hand held refractometer (ATC-1 Atago, Tokyo, Japan) with automatic temperature compensation. To assess the effect of treatments on storage life, two matured green fruit fromeach plant (30 fruit/treatment)were harvested onthe sameoccasion (139 DAS) and werestoredina storage room maintained at 25 8C with relative humidity of 65%. Weight loss measurements were made every 2 days for a 12-day period by weighing individual fruit. Fruit weight loss was calculated as a percentage reduction from the initial fresh weight.