Antonovka, Granny Smith, Golden Delicious and Renet Simirenko) with a wide range of peel
pigment (chlorophylls a and b, carotenoids and anthocyanins) content have been studied to
develop non-destructive techniques for pigment assessment. In addition to chlorophylls,
positions of in vivo absorption maxima were established for carotenoids (480, 455 and a
shoulder at 425 nm) and for anthocyanins (near 550 nm). In anthocyanin-free fruit, a close …