A New Heat Resistant Eggplant Variety—‘Rongzaqie No.9’
LU Ronghai1，LIAO Shihua2，XI Chunyi1，TANG Youwan1，PAN Shaokun1*
（1Horticultural Institute，Chengdu City Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences，Chengdu 611130，Sichuan，China；2Miyi County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau，Panzhihua 617299，Sichuan，China）
Abstract：‘Rongzaqie No.9’ is a heat resistant eggplant F1 hybrid developed by crossing ‘1005-2’ as female parent and ‘ZF16 ’ as male parent．It is cultivated in summer and autumn，and takes about 51 days from field planting to first harvest．The plant is 125-138 cm in height and about 86 cm in width．The fruit is of long stick shape，straight up with slightly pointed top．The average vertical length is 36.8 cm，transverse diameter is 6.2 cm．The average single fruit weight is 331.2 g．The pericarp is glossy black-purple in color，and evenly colored without wrinkling．It can yield about 75 t·hm-2．Its heat resistance is strong．The fruit characters are stable under high temperature．The average abnormal fruit rate is 5.1%．In fields，its resistance to brown scab disease and cotton blight are similar to that of the contrasts‘Heimowang’and‘Wanjinzaoqie’．It is suitable for cultivation in Sichuan and areas with similar ecological conditions in summer and autumn．
