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| A New Flowering Chinese Cabbage —‘Youlv 501 caixin’ |
| HUANG Hong-di1, ZHANG Hua1, ZHENG Yan-song1, LIU Zi-zhu1, GUO Pei-guo2, LI Xiang-yang1 |
| 1Guangzhou Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510308, Guangdong, China; 2Institute of Gene Function in Anti-reverse Plants, Guangzhou Key Laboratory, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong, China |
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Abstract ‘Youlv 501 caixin’is a new conventional Chinese cabbage variety developed by systematic breeding. It is of early maturity. It takes 32-35 days from sowing to harvest, and grows vigorously. The plant height is 24.4 cm. It can develops up to 21.3 cm. Its base-leaves are round with green and shiny color. Its leaf is 18.3 cm in length, 10.2 cm in width, and 5.2 cm in petiole length, 1.6 cm in petiole width. Its sprout leaves are of short-oval shape. The flower stalk is sturdy. Its major sprout is 18.4 cm in height, 1.7-2.0 cm in diameter, and about 40.3 g in weighs. It has tidy bolting, less fiber, sweet crisp quality, and no slag. It yields about 15.0 t?hm-2. It is suitable to grow in plain areas from late April to early November.
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Received: 17 January 2011
Published: 23 February 2011
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