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Table 3. Effect of pre-harvest bagging and post-harvest ethylene de-greening treatments on genes expression associated with carotenoid and chlorophyll metabolism.

	Control	Bagging	Ethylene
CitCHLH	1.31 ± 0.13^a	1.03 ± 0.12^b	0.56 ± 0.08^c
CitNYC	0.43 ± 0.05^b	1.08 ± 0.16^a	0.19 ± 0.02^c
CitChlase	3.39 ± 0.29^a	0.82 ± 0.18^b	0.40 ± 0.05^c
CitPao	1.58 ± 0.20^a	1.13 ± 0.15^b	0.90 ± 0.09^c
CitSGR	0.75 ± 0.12^b	1.08 ± 0.20^a	0.59 ± 0.09^c
CitCAB1	2.86 ± 0.45^a	1.07 ± 0.11^b	0.46 ± 0.06^c
CitCAB2	3.51 ± 0.44^a	1.04 ± 0.11^b	0.91 ± 0.94^c
CitRCCR	2.46 ± 0.30^a	1.27 ± 0.44^c	1.90 ± 0.31^b
CitPSY1	0.70 ± 0.10^b	1.05 ± 0.07^a	0.57 ± 0.08^c
CitPSY2	3.84 ± 0.40^a	0.76 ± 0.19^c	2.74 ± 0.39^b
CitPDS	1.61 ± 0.17^a	1.03 ± 0.12^b	0.81 ± 0.08^c
CitZDS	2.48 ± 0.46^a	1.11 ± 0.16^b	1.07 ± 0.14^b
CitCRTISO	1.00 ± 0.19^a	1.12 ± 0.27^a	0.78 ± 0.12^b
CitLCYb2	2.66 ± 0.27^a	1.40 ± 0.45^b	0.73 ± 0.13^c
CitCHYB	1.60 ± 0.09^a	1.44 ± 0.37^a	0.73 ± 0.18^b
CitZEP	3.02 ± 0.65^a	1.63 ± 0.59^b	1.05 ± 0.33^c
CitVDE	0.63 ± 0.104^b	0.82 ± 0.15^a	0.51 ± 0.09^c
CitCCD1	0.97 ± 0.17^a	0.93 ± 0.13^ab	0.77 ± 0.18^b
CitNCED1	0.69 ± 0.13^b	0.85 ± 0.18^a	0.27 ± 0.08^c
CitNCED2	1.01 ± 0.14^a	1.08 ± 0.15^a	0.23 ± 0.04^b
CitNCED3	0.54 ± 0.11^b	1.53 ± 0.72^a	0.12 ± 0.01^c
CitLCYe	1.71 ± 0.27^a	1.04 ± 0.08^b	0.89 ± 0.12^b

Notes.

All values are the mean ± SD of at least three independent biological replicates measurements. The different small letters in the same row indicate significant differences at the 0.05 level, and ND indicates not detected.