Abstract：‘Jinbaicai No.8’ is a mid-late maturing Chinese cabbage variety．Its growing period is
about 88 days．One of its parents HY219 comes from a variety of farmhouse Tangshan，Hebei Province．
It developed by crossing through many generations and is an inbred self-incompatible line．The other
parent is H226 a self-cross progeny from‘ Tianjinhetaowen’（another farmhouse variety in Tianjin）．
This hybrid has vigorous growth．The outside leaves and the petiole are light green. The head is a cylinder
with compact twisted central part．The‘ Jinbaicai No.8’ is 65 cm in height and 64 cm in stretch．The
single plant weight is about 5 kg. The net vegetable rate is over 80%．Its resistance to downy mildew and
soft rot is higher than the‘ Taiyuanerqing’．It is tolerant to storage and has good commercial quality．It
has less vein on its leaf blade，and less crude fiber content. I ts net vegetable yield is about 127.5 t·hm-2．
It can be cultivated in the regions where a cylinder-like Chine se cabbage can fit．
韩爱谦, 程升, 张翠香, 刘国庆. 大白菜新品种晋白菜8 号的选育[J]. 中国蔬菜, 2013, 1(2): 96-97.
HAN Ai-Qian, CHENG Sheng, ZHANG Cui-Xiang, LIU Guo-Qing. A New Chinese Cabbage F1 Hybrid —‘Jinbaicai No.8’. , 2013, 1(2): 96-97.
