Sr. No.   Treatments Physiological loss in weight (%)
No. of days (Storage period)
4th 6th 8th 10th 12th
1 GA3 150 mg/l 5.97 7.91 8.48 11.90 14.52
2 GA3 300 mg/l 4.89 7.30 8.19 10.57 14.50
3 Kinetin 100 mg/l 7.98 9.68 10.67 12.48 16.44
4 Kinetin 200 mg/l 7.50 9.37 10.4 12.35 16.27
5 Ethrel 1000 mg/l 9.20 10.36 12.02 14.34 18.22
6 Ethrel 2000 mg/l 9.50 10.46 12.44 14.22 18.58
7 CaCl2 5000 mg/l 2.71 4.53 6.96 8.26 13.23
8 CaCl2 10,000 mg/l 2.23 4.85 6.30 8.32 11.49
9 Control 9.42 11.40 13.00 15.40 20.31
S.Em. ± 0.21 0.33 0.40 0.44 0.49
C.D. (0.05%) 0.62 0.94 1.17 1.28 1.42
C.V. % 6.49 7.71 8.23 7.39 6.14
Table 1: Physiological loss in weight due to the effect of different levels of postharvest treatments of chemical and plant growth regulators on sapota fruits cv. Kalipatti.