A New Cucumber Rootstock F1 Hybrid —‘Beinongliangzhen’
LI Hong-ling1，LIU Yi-sheng2，ZHAO Bin3，QU Bo4，ZHANG Rui-fen5，WANG Tie-chen1
1Beijing Extension Station for Agricultural Technology，Beijing 100029，China|2Institute of Vegetables and Flowers，Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences，Beijing 100081，China|3Beijing Golden Six-ring Agricultural Garden，Beijing 102200，China|4Beijing Green Sunshine Seed Limited Company，Beijing 100095，China|5Beijing Beinong Seed Limited Company，Beijing 100029，China
Abstract：‘Beinongliangzhen’is a new pumpkin F1 hybrid used specially as cucumber rootstock，which was developed by crossing inbred line H45471 as female parent and inbred line MH67156 as male parent．It has good compatibility and affinity when grafted with cucumber scion and has high survival rate．Grafting can improve its resistance to Fusarium wilt, and increase the yield．Especially after grafting, the cucumber fruit cuticle has strong shedding ability for wax powder，which makes its cuticle green and bright．Thus the cucumber commodity is obviously improved．At the same time, the contents of soluble sugar and VC in cucumber fruit are increased，and the contents of tannin and nitrous acid are decreased．This new pumpkin cultivar is suitable for cultivation in protected fields in spring，autumn and winter grafted with cucumber．
