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| A New Mini Watermelon F1 Hybrid —‘Chenglan’ |
| XU Jin-hua，YANG Xing-ping，LIU Guang，GAO Chang-zhou，ZHU Ling-li，YAO Xie-feng |
| Institute of Vegetable Crops，Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences，Nanjing 210014，Jiangsu，China |
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Abstract The new mini watermelon Fl hybrid‘Chenglan’is of early maturity bred by crossing SW039 as female parent and SW040 as male parent．It takes 28-32 days from pollination to maturity．The fruit is of oval shape and green in color with thin deep green stripes．Single fruit weight is 1.8-2.5 kg．Its skin thickness is about 0.5 cm．The orange yellow flesh is crisp with excellent taste and flavor. Its soluble sugar content is 11.0 %-12.4 %．It is tolerate to low temperature and weak light. It has high fruit setting capacity．The yield is 27.0-34.5 t?hm-2．It is suitable to be planted in early spring，summer and autumn under plastic cover.
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Received: 03 May 2011
Published: 03 June 2011
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