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A New Facility Specific Oriental Pickling Melon F1 Hybrid —‘ Sushuigua No.1’ |
LI Ping-fang,YAO Xie-feng,Zhu Ling-li,XU Jin-hua,LIU Guang,ZHANG Man,REN Run-sheng,Yang Xing-ping* |
Institute of Vegetable Crops,Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic
Improvement of Jiangsu Province,Nanjing 210014,Jiangsu,China
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Abstract ‘Sushuigua No.1’is a new variety of high-quality,high-yield and disease-resistant oriental
pickling melon,developed by crossing 2 inbred lines‘ MM-192’ and‘ MM-123’ from Qintong Town of Jiangyan
County,Jiangsu Province.It takes about 98 days from sowing to harvest in spring in Nanjing area.The tender
fruit can be harvested about 25 days after the opening of female flowers.The fruit is gray green in color of pear
shape.It is 17-19 cm in vertical diameter and 11-13 cm in transverse diameter.The single melon weight is 0.9-
1.4 kg.The flesh is green in color.The soluble solids content is about 5.0%.Its flesh is crisp,juicy,sweet
with good flavor.It is moderately resistant to gummy stem blight.It can yield about 49.5 t·hm-2.It is suitable
for cultivation in Jiangsu Province and its surrounding areas.
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Received: 17 August 2017
Published: 12 January 2018
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