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A New Tender Pumpkin—‘Yichuanling No.5’ |
KUANG Bi-feng,LIU Zhi-hua*,CHEN Zhu-hua,XIANG Xiao-yang,LI Jian-sheng,GAO Shuai |
(Hengyang Vegetable Research Institute of Hunan Province,Hengyang 421001,Hunan,China) |
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Abstract ‘Yichuanling No.5’ is a new F1 hybrid tender pumpkin that developed by crossing male parent S8 with female parent L10. The plants prostrate,moderate growth potential,resistant to how temperatures,early maturity,it’s stable to set melon in its main vine in the early and its first female flower may happen at section 7-9,it can sit 2-3 melons per plant. The melon shaped ovoid with longitudinal diameter 13.42 cm and diameter 9.41 cm,fresh,tender and denser,good quality.Green peel with light stripes. Single fruit weighs 0.60 kg with a yield of 10.5-18.0 t·hm-2 in the early and 28.5-48.0 t·hm-2 in all. It’s suit to cultivate at Hunan,Sichuan,Chongqing,Yunnan,Hubei,Guangdong,Guangxi and throughout the country.
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Received: 26 August 2015
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