JIANG Wen,CHEN Lijuan,HUANG Chengmei,GAO Meiping,CAI Binghua,FANG Yanrong,HE Qingshi,LAI Songxin
China Vegetables. 2022, 1(3): 109-112.
‘Guiti No.3’is a new water chestnut cultivar developed by taking Guangdong Fangyu local water chestnut as material,screened and bred from fine mutant single plant through stem-tip tissue culture. It is of medium-late maturity.Its whole growth period is about 150 days.The plant has strong growth vigor.The leafy stem is dark green in color.The plant height is 90-110 cm with 4-7 creeping stem.The corm is of ellipsoidal shape,thick round with flat or slightly convex navel.The peel is dark bronzing in color.The vertical diameter is 4.5-4.8 cm and transverse diameter is 4.1-4.3 cm.The average single corn weight is 31.7 g.In fields,its resistance to stem blight is stronger than that of the contrast‘Guiti No.2’.Its soluble sugar content is 4.42%,starch content is 31.0 g · kg-1.It tastes crisp and sweet.It is tolerant to storage.It can yield 37.5-60.0 t · hm-2.It is suitable to be planted in most domestic water chestnut producing areas.