Metabolic profiling reveals distinctive ripening dynamics in ethylene-treated Musa balbisiana cv. 'Pisang Klutuk Wulung' compared to commercial Cavendish banana.

As an important crop, bananas still encounter fruit quality and shelf-life problems that are affected by the ripening process. Improving postharvest technologies may effectively address these challenges, such as by studying the ripening mechanism of banana cultivars with a slow ripening process. A banana cultivar that exhibits this characteristic is Musa balbisiana cv.

Transcriptome dataset of ethylene-treated Klutuk Wulung banana.

Klutuk Wulung banana ( Colla, BB Group) is a climacteric fruit whose ripening is influenced by ethylene production. This banana fruit has a relatively slow ripening process time and long shelf-life compared with A genome banana (, AA). Bananas are usually harvested at a pre-climacteric stage and ripened artificially by exogenous ethylene.

Dataset of Cavendish banana transcriptome in response to chitosan coating application.

Banana is a climacteric fruit and its ripening process is greatly influenced by presence of ethylene. This physiological climacteric characteristic of banana fruit leads to a fast ripening and a short shelf-life. Application of edible coating such as chitosan aims to prolong fruit shelf life.