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| A New Winged Bean Variety —‘Xianglingdou No.2’ |
| JIANG Xiang-hui, CHEN Dong-ming, QUAN Miao-hua |
| Department of Life Science, Huaihua College, Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Study and Utilization of Ethnic Medicinal Plant Resources, Key Laboratory of Hunan Higher Education for Western Hunan Medicinal Plant and Ethnobotany, Huaihua 418008, Hunan, China |
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Abstract ‘Xianglingdou No.2’is a new winged bean variety bred through systematic selection for 6 successive generations by crossing‘Zhongyi No.1’as female parent with K0000026 as male parent. It was suitable to plant at late spring and early summer. This variety has many lateral branches. It has small leaves, uniform pods, good and successive fruit bearing ability. It is tolerant to heat. Its pod color is dark green with shine. The pod is about 20 cm in length, 3 cm in width. The single pod weights 35-45 g. Its pod is of good quality. Its fresh pod yield is 8.212 5 t?hm-2.
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Received: 18 October 2010
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