Abstract:
The role of vegetables or fruits in the human diet has increases for several reasons.
However, they are many challenges in vegetables or fruits production in order t-0
provide high quality, disease-free produce that has extended shelf life. Disease like
anthracnose, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum spp, is the commonly main post
harvest disease problem of the bell pepper that the farmers faced today around the
world. Both immature and ripe fruit are subject to infection, through ripe fruit are
more susceptible. Besides that, leaves and stems are also susceptible to this disease.
One of the post harvest quality that should be consider is about the whole of skin
appearance. This paper work is study about the comparison of green bell pepper's
skin which infected by that fungus "With non-infected skin through Scanning Electron
Microscope (SEM) and image analyzer. This observation consists of topographic of
skin surface and cross section of the bell pepper's skin. The outcome of this
experiment, we can understands how the fungus penetrates into plant that caused
anthracnose disease which can give effect to the quality of bell pepper.
