Delay Ripening Treatments to Maintain Quality of Lime Fruit (Citrus aurantifolia) In Two Different Harvest Time

Abstract

:In Indonesia lime is a widely consumed and economically significant crop. Lime would be harvest when development of fruit is optimum but still have greenish peel color ( Murata, 1997 ;Thompson, 2003). Customers tend to prefer lime fruit that is green instead of yellow (Thompson, 2003). The main problem of lime is yellowing. The most visible is loss of peel greenness that usually cause by Chlorophyll degradation (Drazkiewice, 1994;Srilaong et al., 2011