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A New Subgynoecious Autumn Cucumber F1 Hybrid—‘Tangqiu 208’ |
HAN Jing-ling,LI Yu-hua,SONG Rui-sheng,HOU Bo-sheng |
Tangshan City Institute of Agricultural Sciences,Tangshan 063001,Hebei,China |
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Abstract ‘Tangqiu 208’ is a new early maturing and subgynoecious autumn cucumber F1 hybrid bred by
crossing C18 as female parent and P107 as male parent. Its female flower rate is 85.17%. The commercial fruit is
14.63 cm in length and 3.97 cm in diameter. The average single fruit weight is 147 g. Its fruit skin is green and
shinning with larger and dilute tubers. The fruit has good commercial character. Its VC content is 87.0 mg·kg-1. Its
yield is about 75 t · hm-2. It is suitable for protected and open field cultivation in spring and autumn. It is suitable
to be planted in Hebei,Liaoning Provinces and Tianjin,etc.
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Received: 17 February 2014
Published: 08 April 2014
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