Genetic Diversity in Passiflora Species Assessed by Morphological and ITS Sequence Analysis

Table 2

Morphological parameters of nine Passiflora accessions.

Parameter	Passiflora species
	P. edulis (PE1)	P. edulis(PE2)	P. edulis (PE3)	P. edulis (PE4)	P. maliformis	P. quadrangularis	P. incarnata	P. foetida (PF1)	P. foetida (PF2)
Vegetative morphology
LL	13.82 ± 0.69^a	13.71 ± 0.91^a	13.12 ± 0.37^a	13.85 ± 1.04^a	12.03 ± 0.49^a	13.66 ± 0.60^a	8.71 ± 0.48^b	7.34 ± 0.89^b	6.42 ± 1.04^b
LW	14.12 ± 0.16^a	14.08 ± 0.36^a	14.26 ± 0.92^a	14.67 ± 0.52^a	9.93 ± 0.69^b	10.42 ± 0.42^b	6.57 ± 0.57^d	8.21 ± 0.71^c	7.27 ± 0.86^cd
STW	0.59 ± 0.54^ab	0.56 ± 0.71^ab	0.58 ± 0.34^ab	0.57 ± 0.51^a	0.49 ± 0.92^bc	0.63 ± 1.08^ab	0.39 ± 0.75^cd	0.32 ± 0.47^d	0.25 ± 0.26^d
TL	24.43 ± 2.06^a	26.95 ± 3.65^a	25.83 ± 0.63^a	23.56 ± 0.35^a	23.87 ± 1.51^a	26.63 ± 0.27^a	23.52 ± 1.15^a	16.03 ± 1.23^b	13.38 ± 1.47^b
TW	0.13 ± 0.05^a	0.14 ± 0.03^a	0.12 ± 0.01^a	0.13 ± 0.04^a	0.14 ± 0.02^a	0.15 ± 0.01^a	0.07 ± 0.06^b	0.06 ± 0.02^b	0.06 ± 0.02^b
Reproductive morphology
BL	3.37 ± 0.07^bc	2.89 ± 0.07^bcd	3.30 ± 0.12^bc	3.46 ± 0.20^b	6.69 ± 0.16^a	2.59 ± 0.12^d	2.32 ± 0.27^d	2.73 ± 0.49^cd	2.73 ± 0.18^cd
BW	2.15 ± 0.02^b	1.73 ± 0.04^bc	2.13 ± 0.02^b	2.49 ± 0.49^b	4.23 ± 0.05^a	1.22 ± 0.03^c	1.28 ± 0.05^c	2.32 ± 0.57^b	2.35 ± 0.37^b
FLS	8.91 ± 0.41^cd	9.18 ± 0.58^c	8.77 ± 0.23^cd	9.09 ± 0.37^c	10.54 ± 0.87^b	12.16 ± 0.96^a	8.37 ± 0.32^d	4.20 ± 0.44^e	3.86 ± 0.25^e
PTL	3.64 ± 0.08^b	3.89 ± 0.18^ab	3.63 ± 0.09^b	3.66 ± 0.08^b	1.98 ± 0.30^c	4.13 ± 0.16^a	4.04 ± 0.07^a	2.16 ± 0.26^c	2.05 ± 0.14^c
PTW	1.23 ± 0.04^bc	1.15 ± 0.07^c	1.37 ± 0.33^b	1.22 ± 0.04^bc	0.41 ± 0.02^e	1.97 ± 0.03^a	0.83 ± 0.04^d	0.77 ± 0.03^d	0.72 ± 0.04^d
SPL	3.59 ± 0.08^b	3.57 ± 0.09^b	3.52 ± 0.11^b	3.55 ± 0.13^b	4.06 ± 0.12^a	4.16 ± 0.11^a	4.15 ± 0.09^a	2.49 ± 0.15^c	2.33 ± 0.20^c
SPW	1.27 ± 0.11^b	1.19 ± 0.31^b	1.34 ± 0.45^b	1.37 ± 0.38^b	1.77 ± 0.16^a	1.85 ± 0.19^a	1.22 ± 0.10^b	0.62 ± 0.03^d	0.61 ± 0.04^d
OCR	3.40 ± 0.52^bc	3.70 ± 0.48^b	3.70 ± 0.48^b	4.00 ± 0.48^b	2.00 ± 0.00^d	3.00 ± 0.00^c	5.00 ± 0.00^a	2.00 ± 0.00^d	2.00 ± 0.00^d
CL	2.45 ± 0.40^c	2.72 ± 0.18^c	2.56 ± 0.16^c	2.53 ± 0.26^c	3.79 ± 0.85^b	6.26 ± 0.50^a	3.42 ± 0.47^b	1.32 ± 0.22^d	1.29 ± 0.26^d
FM	83.3 ± 14.55^b	49.8 ± 13.35^b	64.4 ± 10.91^b	124.4 ± 4.55^b	35.5 ± 6.12^b	2175.0 ± 51.57^a	2.1 ± 0.66^b	1.34 ± 7.45^b	1.45 ± 6.19^b
FL	7.95 ± 1.39^bc	5.48 ± 0.89^cd	5.92 ± 0.67^cd	9.02 ± 0.77^b	4.30 ± 0.57^d	22.38 ± 2.53^a	2.80 ± 0.03^de	1.38 ± 0.23^e	1.43 ± 0.35^e
FD	6.68 ± 0.83^b	4.68 ± 1.36^d	5.57 ± 0.42^cd	6.49 ± 0.37^bc	3.88 ± 0.14^e	12.96 ± 0.70^a	2.45 ± 0.10^f	1.44 ± 0.14^fg	1.38 ± 0.11^g
SL	0.63 ± 0.03^b	0.61 ± 0.03^b	0.59 ± 0.05^b	0.63 ± 0.02^b	0.61 ± 0.03^b	0.98 ± 0.14^a	0.56 ± 0.05^bc	0.43 ± 0.03^cd	0.41 ± 0.04^d
SW	0.41 ± 0.02^b	0.40 ± 0.02^b	0.40 ± 0.01^b	0.45 ± 0.02^b	0.38 ± 0.03^b	0.74 ± 0.06^a	0.42 ± 0.05^b	0.28 ± 0.01^c	0.29 ± 0.02^c

Different superscript letters within the same row indicate significant differences (Tukey’s test, P ≤ 0.05) among the means of each variable of the Passiflora accessions. LL-leaf length (cm), LW-leaf width (cm), STW-stem width (cm), TL-tendril length (cm), TW-tendril width (cm), BL-bract length (cm), BW-bract width (cm), FLS-flower size (cm), PTL-petal length (cm), PTW-petal width (cm), SPL-sepal length (cm), SPW-sepal width (cm), ORC-outer corona rows, CL-corona length (cm), FM-fruit mass (g), FL-fruit length (cm), FD-fruit diameter (cm), SL-seed length (cm), and SW-seed width (cm).