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A New Eggplant F1 Hybrid —‘ Changza No.8’ |
LIU Fu-zhong,LIAN Yong,CHEN Yu-hui,ZHANG Ying |
Institute of Vegetables & Flowers,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Beijing 100081,China |
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Abstract ‘Changza No.8’ is a new eggplant F1 hybrid developed by crossing inbred line‘ 03154’ as female
parent and inbred line‘ 03204’ as male parent. It is of mid-early maturity and grows vigorously. The plant type is
erect. Its leaf is green in color. The first eggplant fruit sets between 9-10th leaves. Its fruit is of long stick shape and
is 26-35 cm in length,4-5 cm in diameter with bright black purple color. The single fruit weight is 170-210 g.
The fruit is tolerant to storage and transportation. The average yield is about 60 t·hm-2. It is tolerant to blight and
suitable for cultivation in spring in open fields and plastic tunnel of northern China.
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Received: 27 May 2016
Published: 08 October 2016
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