Post-harvest assessment of fruit quality and shelf life of two elite tomato varieties cultivated in Bangladesh

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 3 Combined effect of varieties and postharvest treatments on changes of color of tomato fruits during storage and ripening

Treatment combination	Colour(a) at different days after storage
Treatment combination	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16
V₁T₁	2.91	4.16	4.75	4.91	5.33	5.83	6.08	6.58
V₁T₂	2.16	3.66	3.75	3.83	4.17	4.91	5.16	5.25
V₁T₃	2.58	4.16	4.66	4.75	5.33	5.58	6.08	6.33
V₁T₄	2.33	4.08	4.58	4.75	5.16	5.50	5.92	6.33
V₁T₅	2.17	3.75	4.25	4.67	4.83	5.33	5.75	6.16
V₁T₆	2.17	3.75	4.08	4.50	4.75	5.00	5.67	6.16
V₁T₇	2.08	3.33	3.66	3.75	4.00	4.08	4.16	4.33
V₁T₈	2.25	4.08	4.50	4.75	5.08	5.41	5.83	6.17
V₂T₁	2.43	3.67	3.92	4.00	4.25	4.42	5.58	5.67
V₂T₂	1.99	2.50	3.00	3.60	3.91	4.00	4.25	4.50
V₂T₃	2.30	3.27	3.80	4.00	4.20	4.40	5.50	5.63
V₂T₄	2.24	3.00	3.69	3.91	4.20	4.37	4.97	5.60
V₂T₅	2.08	2.75	3.27	3.72	4.10	4.27	4.79	5.54
V₂T₆	2.00	2.66	3.21	3.67	4.08	4.17	4.25	5.33
V₂T₇	1.58	2.42	2.75	2.90	3.50	3.83	3.91	4.00
V₂T₈	2.19	2.93	3.42	3.80	4.18	4.37	4.84	5.60
LSD_0.05	0.158	0.263	0.129	0.139	0.210	0.229	0.197	0.182
LSD_0.01	0.212	0.354	0.173	0.187	0.283	0.309	0.265	0.245
Level of significance	**	**	*	**	**	**	**	**

^aColor score (1 green, 2 breaker, 3 turning, 4 pink, 5 light red, 6 red, 7 red ripe)
*Significant at 5% level of probability
**Significant at 1% level of probability