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| A New Bitter Gourd F1 Hybrid —‘Chuntai’ |
| WANG An-le，DENG Wen-qiao，LIN Jia-fu |
| Changsha Vegetable Research Institute,Changsha 410003,Hunan,China |
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Abstract ‘Chuntai’is a new bitter gourd F1 hybrid developed by crossing female parent C0238 and male parent Z0278.It has early maturity with long stick shape.The first fruit is set at 7th-9th nodes and the fruit setting ability is strong.The pericarp is green.Its flesh is crispy and tasted medium bitter.The average fruit is 32 cm in length,6.7 cm in diameter,1.1 cm in flesh thickness.The single fruit weights about 300 g.It can yield about 60 t·hm-2.It is suitable to be cultivated in the Yangtze River Valley.
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Received: 20 April 2009
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