BEHAVIOR OF PURPLE PASSION FRUIT AND YELLOW PASSION FRUIT GENOTYPES IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT, BRAZIL

The purple passion fruit with suitable yield and quality can become an important income source for growers due to high price achieved in the European fresh fruit market. With the aim to evaluate purple passion fruit varieties from Australia under Brazilian savanna conditions an experiment was carried out in a randomized blocks with 9 genotypes of passion fruit, 7 plants per plot and 4 replications. The purple passion fruit genotypes used were: 'Lacey', '14', '25', 'Supersweet 9', '37(1)', '37(2)' and '96A'. The yellow passion fruit genotypes 'Marilia Selecao Cerrado' and Hybrid 'BRS Ouro Vermelho' were used as control. It can be concluded that 'BRS Ouro Vermelho' hybrid and 'Marilia Selecao Cerrado' had the highest yields and among the purple passion fruit the '14' genotype showed the highest yield, while, 'Lacey' genotype had the highest total fruit weight and number of harvested fruits, fruits per plant, fruits per hectare and class "A" fruits. Genotypes 'S9' had the highest average fruit weight and percentages of purple fruits and class "A" fruits.