The work was carried out in the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), with the aim to evaluate the relations among fruit traits of the yellow passion fruit and its direct and indirect effects on fruits weight and pulp content. The evaluations had been made in the first year yield with 200 randomly sampled fruits in an essay with 42 half-sib progenies. The data were submitted to Pearson's correlation and Path coefficient analysis. The evaluated traits were: length and equatorial diameter of the fruit, weight of the fruit, weight of the rind and the pulp, thickness of the rind, pulp weight/fruit weight ratio and length/diameter ratio. Significant correlations among the traits and yield were verified. The pulp weight had greater favorable direct effect for fruit weight selection. The equatorial diameter of the fruit was better associated with the length of the fruit than with pulp weight. The selection of fruits with greater equatorial diameter makes possible the attainment of passion fruits with higher pulp contents. Correlation between pulp content and length/diameter ratio (oval fruits) were not observed.
Passiflora edulis; correlation; path analysis; fruit quality
