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Abstract
This investigation was carried out during two successive seasons of 1997 and 1998 on three quarter full mature Williams banana fruits. Bunches were brought from a private orchard located at Itsa Village, Minia Governorate. They were harvested on the last week of November in both seasons. Any bruised, unhealthy or hands with obvious mechanical damage were discarded. The selected hands were washed with tap water, rinsed in a solution containing an antiseptic material namely sodium bisulphite for five minutes and finally air dried.
Half of the selected hands were cured for three days at the room temperature (20 °C). The other half was left without curing and immediately artificial ripening. Both cured and uncured hands of Williams banana were immersed in ethrel solution at 0.0, 125, 250 or 500 ppm and calcium chloride at 0.0, 1.0, 2.0 or 4.0 %.