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A New Male Sterile Pepper F1 Hybrid —‘Yujiao No.9’ |
YAO Qiuju1,CHANG Xiaoke1*,CHENG Zhifang1,HAN Yanan1,ZHANG Yule2,ZHANG Tao1 |
1Horticulture Institute,Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Zhengzhou 450008,Henan,China;2Zhengzhou Agricultural Technology Center,Zhengzhou 450000,Henan,China |
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Abstract ‘Yujiao No.9’is a new three-line hybrid pepper developed by crossing cytoplasmic male sterile line‘PC134A’as female parent and inbred line‘PC162’as male parent.This variety is of early maturity.Its growth period is about 195 days.The plant has strong growth vigor.The plant height is about 95 cm.In earlier stage,it sets fruit concentrately and in the middle and later periods,it has strong continuous fruit setting ability.The consistency of upper and lower layer fruits is good.Its fruit is of thick cattle horn shape.Its peel is yellow-green in color.The fruit is about 23 cm in length and about 5 cm in width.The average single fruit weight is 100 g.The VC content is 922.0 mg · kg-1,and capsaicin content is 46.00 mg · kg-1.In fields its resistance to virus disease,anthrax and epidemic disease is equivalent to that of the contrast‘Yujiao 701’.It can yield about 49.5 t · hm-2.This variety is suitable for early spring cultivation in protected fields in Henan.
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Received: 14 January 2021
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