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| A New Pepper F1 Hybrid——‘ Zhujiao 21’ |
| JIANG Jun，ZHAO Hong-xing，WANG Yong，LI Yan |
| （Horticulture Institute of Zhumadian City Academy of Agricultural Sciences，Zhumadian 463000，Henan， China） |
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Abstract ‘Zhujiao 21’ is a pepper F1 hybrid obtained by crossing male sterile line AB0582 as female parent
with inbred line B0318 as male parent. It is of early maturity. Its entire growing period is 182 days. Its fruit is of
sheep-horn shape. The fruit is 19.2 cm in length and 3.7 cm in diameter. The average single fruit weight is 44.6
g. The immature fruit is green in color. This variety can yield about 50.7 t·hm-2. Its capsaicin content is 26.2
mg·kg-1 and the VC content is 1 040 mg·kg-1. It is suitable to be planted in open and protected fields in early
spring.
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Received: 12 August 2014
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