The yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims f. flavicarpa Deg.) lost value during its commercialization because of some alterations in its fruit appearance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fresh fruit weight loss of progenies from yellow passion fruit. The fruits were harvest in the experimental area and evaluated in the Laboratory of Analysis of Fruits, in the Plant Science Department, University Federal of Viçosa (MG - Brazil). It was determined the mass loss of fresh matter during the eleven first days after the harvest, of five germanic siblings progenies from the UFV breeding passion fruit program. The experiment was in a subdivided plot design, considering the progenies as a plot, and the evaluations periods in days as subplot. The mass loss of fresh matter was evaluated in semi-analytical scale, being the difference of accumulated mass during the experiment evolution and the result of loss mass of fresh matter in relation to the fruit initial mass, expressed in percentage. The experiment was designed in a completely randomized blocks, with four replications, where each plot constituted of four fruits. The progenies evaluated presented post harvest behavior differentiated; the results indicate the need to include the resistance to the mass loss of the fresh matter of the fruits among the objectives of the improvement.
Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa; progenies; post harvest
