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| Breeding of Vegetable Soybean Variety —‘Zhexiandou No.4’ |
| ZHU Shen-long, FU Xu-jun, ZHU Dan-hua, LI bai-quan, YUAN Feng-jie |
| Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, Zhejiang, China |
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Abstract ‘Zhexiandou No.4’is a new vegetable soybean developed by Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It is limited setpod, 30-35 cm in plant height. Its node numbers of main stem is 9.7, and the effective branch number is 1.8. Pod number is 30 per plant. The fresh weight of hundred grains is 60 g. The dry weight of hundred grains is 30.1 g. It takes about 81 days from sowing to green pod harvest. The fresh pod yield is about 10.5 t·hm-2. The variety is widely adapted to Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Hainan provinces for spring sowing.
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Received: 14 January 2010
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Corresponding Authors:
ZHU Shen-long
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