A New Vegetable Soybean Variety —‘ Huaixiandou No.5’
YANG Jia-yin， XU Hai-feng， CHENG Bao-shan， LUO Bo-xiang
Agricultural Science Institute of Xuhuai Region in Jiangsu Province，Huai’an Experimental Station of National Center for Soybean Improvement，Key Laboratory for Agricultural Biotechnology of Huai’an City， Huai’an 223001， Jiangsu，China
‘Huaixiandou No.5’ is a new vegetable spring soybean variety bred by modified single seed descent， and crossing‘ Taiwan 75’ as female parent and‘ Gaoxiong No.5’ as male parent. It yields high， has good quality and is of middle maturity. The average fresh pod yield is 10.05 t·hm-2 and the period from seedling emergence to green pod harvest is 83 days. Its pods are dark green in color with white pubescence. The standard second seed pod is 5.6 cm in length and 1.3 cm in width. The 100 fresh pods weights 312.5 g， and 100 fresh seeds are 77.2 g in weight. It tastes sweet and waxy. It is suitable to be cultivated within Jiangsu Province in spring.
