Efectos del uso de diferentes distancias de siembra en 2 variedades del cultivo de maracuya (passiflora edulis, degener)

Abstract

In Ecuador, the cultivation of passion fruit is important because it has allowed the development of agro-industrial processing and added value, which has made our country one of the largest producers of fruit and exporters of passion fruit concentrate in the world. Therefore, the present article aims to study the production of yellow and purple passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims (purple passion fruit); P. edulis f. flavicarpa Deg. (yellow passion fruit)) according to their morphological characteristics and different planting densities, as well as the analysis of phenols present in their rind and pulp. In this sense, a factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied between groups, after respecting the hypotheses of the non-additive linear model used. The combination of passion fruit varieties and planting distances did not show a significant interaction effect in any case the yellow variety presented a higher value for the morphological characteristics of the crops, however, chemical properties of the soil are higher in relation to the purple variety. Although at a general level there was no significant evidence between the study factors, these influenced the production of the same and on the quantity or yield of the crop, being the shortest planting distances those that present the best statistical and numerical results that can improve the productivity of a farm, additionally the purple variety in terms of bioactive compounds such as phenols gave the best results.