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  • A New Red Pear Cultivar‘Zaohongyu’
  • WANG Suke,YANG Jian,WANG Long,XUE Huabai,SU Yanli,and LI Xiugen*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2619-2620. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0421
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  • ‘Zaohongyu’is a new red skin pear cultivar which was selected from the cross‘Shinseiki’בHongxiangsu’. The fruits are subround shape and average weight 256 g. The fruit skin is greenish-yellow covered with bright red on the side exposed to the sun. The flesh is crisp,juicy and sweet. The soluble solids content is 12.8%,accompany with 7.64% soluble sugar content and 0.07% titratable acid content. The fruit growth period is 120–130 d and storage-tolerance is high. It matures in early August in Zhengzhou,Henan. The yield is up to 60 t · hm-2.

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  • A New Cold Resistant Peach Cultivar‘Zhongnong Hantao 1
  • WANG Xiaodi,LIU Fengzhi,ZHENG Xiaocui,SHI Xiangbin,WEI Changcun,HE Jinxing,WANG Baoliang,WU Yuxing,WANG Zhiqiang,LIU Wanchun,and WANG Haibo*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2623-2624. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2016-0368
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  • ‘Zhongnong Hantao 1is a new mid-early maturing and cold resistance peach cultivar. Its parent is the seven-year-old eminent naturally seedling tree collected from the countryside garden in Taoxian Town of Shenyang. The peach fruit is suborbicular,its flesh is pink and its pericap is thin,with white bottom colour and bright red sunward side. The average weight of the fruit is 288 g,the maximum weight can be up to 366 g and the edible rate is about 95%. The total soluble soilds content is 11.3%,titratable acid content is 0.56%,vitamin C content is 6.21 μg · g-1. The fruit behaves well on the point of making juice for its high juice yield,about 73.5%,and the strong anti-oxidation character of its rosy juice. The new cultivar has the character of earlier bearing and stable harvesting,and its yield is 37.5 t · hm-2 in the fourth year of engraftment. Additionally,the new cultivar has high cold resistance,but is not anti-waterlogging or tolerant for saline-alkaline,so it is suitable for cultivation in Huludao of Liaoning and similar zone. After many years of field observation,the peach tree is resistant to gummosis and scab and should be prevented from brown spot perforation.

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  • A New Mid-maturing Peach Cultivar‘Taishan Shuhong’
  • WANG Haibo,HE Ping,CHANG Yuansheng,LI Huifeng,YANG Jianming,and LI Linguang*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2625-2626. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2016-0971
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  • ‘Taishan Shuhong’was selected from seedlings of‘Yukon King’. The fruit shape is round regularly with slightly umbilicated top and shallow suture line. The average fruit weight is 156.2 g. The fruit skin is in full red color and with short fuzz. The flesh is in white color,crispy,juicy and hard-melting. Red pigments would be generated in flesh of fully matured fruits. The soluble solids content and titratable acid content were 12.1% and 0.37%,respectively,resulting in the moderately sweet and sour flavor quality of the fruit. The fruit development period was about 100 days. In conclusion,the cultivar has excellent table qualities and many other good characteristics,such as early fruiting,high fertility and strong adaptability.

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  • A New Late-ripening Peach Cultivar‘Fodu Dongtao 1’
  • YU Fei1,ZHANG Yan1,LU Lin1,LI Baozhang2,and QIU Minghua1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2627-2628. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0752
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  • ‘Fodu Dongtao 1’is a new late-ripening peach cultivar selected from the peach cultivar‘Zhonghua Dongtao 2’. The fruit shape is round,the average weight is 220 g,and the biggest one is 589 g. More than 50% of the fruit surface is covered with deep red. The flesh is yellowish-white with red pigment around stone,non-melting,sweet. The soluble solids content is 14.39% and the stone is free. It is tolerant to storage and long-distance transportation with 18.0 kg · cm-2 hardness. It has high yield with self-fertility. The fruit development period is about 260 days,and it ripens in fields in mid-December in Dali of Yunnan.

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  • A New Mid-ripening Flat Nectarine Cultivar‘Ruiyoupan 2
  • GUO Jiying,ZHAO Jianbo,JIANG Quan*,REN Fei,LI Xinyue,WANG Zhen,ZHANG Yu,ZHENG Zhiqin,and WANG Shangde
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2629-2630. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0081
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  • ‘Ruiyoupan 2is a mid-ripening flat nectarine cultivar derived from the cross of nectarine ‘Ruiguang 27× flat peach‘93-1-24’. The flower is showy with much pollen. Its average fruit mass is 122 g. The fruit is flat with red blush covering almost all of the fruit skin surface. The fruit flesh is white,melting,firm,sweet and clingstone. The soluble solids content is 13.5%. The fruit development period is 119 days. It is productive with the yield 30 t · hm-2 during full bearing age.

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  • An Early-ripening Nectarine Cultivar‘Long Youtao 2’
  • ZHAO Xiumei,WANG Falin*,CHEN Jianjun,NIU Ruxuan,WANG Chenbing,LI Kuanying,and WANG Hong
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2631-2632. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0321
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  • ‘Long Youtao 2’is an early season nectarine cultivar,derived from the open-pollinated seedlings of‘Yanguang’bred by embryo culture. The fruit shape is round with a convex fruit top;fruit halves symmetrical,average fruit weight 100 g,large fruit weight 153 g. The fruit skin color is covered by red on milk-white background when ripe. The flesh is white,hard melting. The flavor is strong sweet. The fruit has excellent quality,soluble solids content is 12.5%–14.6%,soluble sugar content is 12.06%,organic acid content is 0.28%,vitamin C content is 78 mg · kg-1. Nuclear is clingstone. The cultivar is self-fruitful and has high yield,the yield of 4-year-old trees is about 20.3 t · hm-2. The fruits mature in late of June,and the fruit development period is about 70 days.

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  • A New Early-maturing Apricot Cultivar‘Luxing 5
  • WANG Shaomin*,RAN Kun,WANG Hongwei,ZHANG Yong,WEI Shuwei,DONG Ran,and DONG Fang
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2633-2634. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0263
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  • ‘Luxing 5apricot is an early ripening cultivar derived from the cross of‘Jintaiyang’בBadanshuixing’. The fruit is oval-shaped and the average fruit weight is 97.0 g. The ground color of fruit is yellow,with spotted flush in the sunward surface. The flesh is golden,juicy,sour-sweet and aroma,with 11.3%–13.6% soluble solids content and 96.9% edible part percentage,freestone. The kernel is sweet. It ripens in early to mid-June in Tai’an of Shandong and the fruit development period is about 75 d. ‘Luxing 5is characterized by early fruit,high yield and high comprehensive quality.

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  • A New Sour Cherry Cultivar‘Meilei’
  • CAI Yuliang1,*,LI Binbin1,ZHANG Yongyi2,LIANG Chenglin1,and WAN Tian1
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2635-2636. DOI:doi:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0730
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  • ‘Meilei’is selected from wild sour cherry seedling. Average fruit weight is 5.3 g,total sugar content is 8.92%,total acidity is 1.49%,soluble protein content is 1.46%,vitamin C content is 0.152 mg · g-1 FW,iron content is 0.040 mg · g-1 FW,and calcium content is 0.914 mg · g-1 FW. The height of tree is up to 3.6 m at the age of six. The fruit surface color is purple red and shiny. The fruit is sweet and sour,sour flavor,juicy. It has dark red flesh. It is suitable for culturing in Shaanxi and similar type area.

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  • A New Grape Cultivar of‘Jinlongzhu’
  • LI Xiujie1,HAN Zhen1,LI Chen1,CHANG Yunjun2,and LI Bo1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2637-2638. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0423
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  • ‘Jinlongzhu’is an early-ripening grape cultivar which derived from the mutation of ‘Victoria’. It has cone-shaped clusters with an average weight of 590 g. Berries are golden yellow with oval shape,and the mean weight is 18 g. The soluble solids and titratable acid content of berry is 13.5% and 0.22%,respectively. The flesh is crisp and succulent,sweet and delicious. The berry matures in late July in Pingdu,Shandong. It has a good yielding ability of 36.5 t · hm-2,strong cultivation adaptability,better pathogen resistance and storage performance.

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  • A New Late-flowering Pollenizer of Kiwifruit‘Moshan Xiong 3
  • HAN Fei,HUANG Hongwen,LIU Xiaoli,LI Dawei,JIANG Zhengwang,ZHANG Peng,and ZHONG Caihong*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2639-2640. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0060
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  • ‘Moshan Xiong 3is a new late-flowering pollenizer of kiwifruit,which was selected from the wild resources of Actinidia deliciosa. The vine of‘Moshan Xiong 3is vigorous and easy to blooming. The bud break rate is 57% and flowering rate is 95%. Flowers are white and large in amount,and it has 41 mm corolla diameter,1.9 mm × 1.0 mm anther size,8–10 petals and approximate 168 filaments.‘Moshan Xiong 3produces a larger number of flowers and abundant pollen with 73%–82% germination rate. In Wuhan,flowering is in early April and late May,flowering lasting 12–13 days.‘Moshan Xiong 3and more than 20 female varieties(‘Jinkui’,‘Hayward’,‘Miliang 1’,etc)bloom at the same time.

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  • A New Yellow-fleshed Kiwifruit Cultivar‘Jinmei’
  • HAN Fei,HUANG Hongwen,LI Dawei,JIANG Zhengwang,and ZHONG Caihong*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2641-2642. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0626
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  • ‘Jinmei’is a mid-maturing yellow-fleshed kiwifruit,was selected from the hybrids of interspecific cultivar‘Jinyan’and a pollinator of red-freshed kiwifruit. The fruit are long cylindrical with short woolly hairs,85–95 g · fruit-1,uniform size and shape. The fruit flesh is yellow,fruit flavor is sweet with strongly aromatic. The content of dry matter,soluble solids,soluble sugar,organic acid,total amine acid and vitamin C is 16%–19.2%,15.0%–17.5%,9.8%,1.3%,0.8%,1 240 mg · kg-1 FW,respectively. The fruit mature is from late September to early October in Wuhan. The fruit has good storage life.

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  • A New Mulberry Cultivar‘Dabaishen’
  • HAN Chuanming,WANG Cuixiang,SUN Chao,LIANG Yan,and SUN Lei*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2643-2644. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0227
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  • ‘Dabaishen’is a new fresh-eating and processing fruit mulberry cultivar,which was selected from the white mulberry seedling resources in Xiajin,Shandong. The fruit is ovoid in shape. The average fruit weight is 4.37 g and the biggest one reaches 5.00 g. The fruit is milk-white and juicy with grain,bright juice and fragrant smell. The organic acid,vitamin C,soluble solids,pH,flower bud rate,fruit setting rate are 0.91 g · kg-1,218 mg · kg-1,24.8%,6.58,98.45% and 92.89%,respectively. The average production of 5-year-old tree is 20.19 kg. It has excellent quality,high yield,high resistant to disease and strong adaptability.

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  • A New Mulberry Cultivar‘Bingtangshen’
  • WANG Cuixiang,SUN Lei,SUN Chao,LIANG Yan,and HAN Chuanming*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2645-2646. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0226
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  • ‘Bingtangshen’is a new fresh-eating and processing fruit mulberry cultivar,which was selected from the white mulberry seedling resources in Xiajin,Shandong. The fruit is ovoid in shape. The average fruit weight is 3.1 g and the biggest one reaches 3.9 g. The fruit is lavender and juicy with grain,bright juice and candy fragrant smell. The organic acid,vitamin C,soluble solids,pH,flower bud rate,fruit setting rate are 0.83 g · kg-1,342 mg · kg-1,23.78%,6.38,98.65% and 93.68%,respectively. The fruit maturity period is from mid-May to late May and the defoliation period is from late October to early November,in Dezhou,Shandong. The average production of 5-year-old tree is 11.75 kg. It has excellent quality,high yield and high resistance to disease,which is suitable for growing in mulberry-cultivated areas of China.

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  • A New Mulberry Cultivar‘Yueshen 28
  • WANG Zhenjiang1,2,DAI Fanwei1,2,LUO Guoqing1,XIAO Gengsheng1,LI Zhiyi1,and TANG Cuiming1,2,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2647-2648. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0461
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  • ‘Yueshen 28Morus atropurpurea Roxb.)is a new early maturing diploid mulberry culivar with superior quality and high yield. The long and cylindrical fruits are dark purple color,and about 8.0 g. The fruit with sweet and sour taste,which contains 82% juice productivity,4.5% soluble solids,4.2% total sugar,1.2% titratable acid and 1.36 mg · g-1 anthocyanin. The fruit harvest period is about 30 days,and suitable planted in south of the Yangtze River area,with the yield more than 18 500 kg · hm-2.

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  • A New Mini-fruit and Thin Shell Walnut Cultivar‘Muzhi Linhe’
  • WANG Jingyan1,GONG Wei1,*,WANG Fu2,YANG Wenlong2,LUO Yigang3,and ZENG Qingyuan4
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2649-2650. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0831
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  • ‘Muzhi Linhe’is a new cultivar derived from the native and excellent walnut plant in Gulin,Sichuan. The nut is small,with the thin shell and smooth surface. The kernel is full and tastes fragrant. It is easy to take out the whole kernel. The average fruit weight is 7.5 g. The shell thickness is 0.77 mm,and kernel percentage is 61.6%. The kernel total fat content is 66.7%,and total protein content is 20.4%. The nut production of crown projection area is 412 g · m-2. It is suitable to plant in the mountain and hill under damp-heat and rainy weather condition. It has high yield and high resistance to disease.

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  • A New Carya cathayensis Cultivar‘Yayou 40
  • WANG Kailiang1,*,YAO Xiaohua1,NI Deliang2,HONG Youjun3,WANG Nianjin4,CHANG Jun1,and REN Huadong1
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2651-2652. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0237
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  • Carya cathayensis‘Yayou 40is a new cultivar,which was selected from seedling population in Jiande,Zhejiang. The fruit is larger,weighing 4.84 g on average. The mean vertical and transverse diameter length of the nuts is 24.13 mm and 21.31 mm,respectively,with fruit shape index 1.13. The kernel percent of the nuts is 48.8%. The fat content of nutlet is 62.50%,the protein is 61.20 mg ? g-1,the potassium is 2 655.9 μg ? g-1,and the calcium is 1 185.8 μg ? g-1. The average fruit production of 7-year-old tree is 1 557.6 kg ? hm-2. Carya cathayensis‘Yayou 40has the properties of early bearing and high-yield,and the multiple characteristic is excellent.

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  • A New Cultivar of Juglans hopeiensis‘Jingyi 2
  • QI Jianxun,WU Chunlin,CHEN Yonghao,DONG Ningguang,and HAO Yanbin*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2653-2654. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0596
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  • ‘Jingyi 2is a new cultivar of Juglans hopeiensis selected from wild seedling resources in Yanqing,Beijing. The shape of nut is approximately round and the bottom is wide and flat. The apex of nut is round and lightly tine. The average diameter of horizontal is 3.86 cm,and the max one can get to 4.62 cm. The average diameter of vertical and flank are 3.57 cm and 3.50 cm,respectively. The nuts range in weight from 16.3 g to 24.5 g,and average 19.3 g. The thickness of shell is 3.5 mm. Kernel rate average 8.9%. Empty shell rate average 26.7%. The suture line protrudes highly,and combines tightly. The color of shell is light,the concave is relatively deep,and the texture is very beautiful. The nut’s quality of art and exercise is excellent. It has average yield that average 14.2 nuts for 5-year top grafting tree. Its resistance to cold and disease is high.

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  • A New Early-maturing and Fresh Jujube Cultivar‘Chuanzao’
  • WANG Cuixiang1,ZHAO Detian2,SUN Chao1,LIU Zhen3,HAN Chuanming1,*,QI Yukun1,GAO Jia1,and ZHANG Wanfeng2
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2655-2656. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2016-0943
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  • ‘Chuanzao’is a new jujube cultivar as table fruit which was selected from the seedling populations of southern mountains in Jinan. The shape of the fruit is oval,with the average fruit weight of 14.47 g,up to 23.16 g. The ripe fruit is red with smooth surface. The flesh is light green and delicate,with sweet taste and superior quality. The average stone weight,the kernel rate,the soluble solids content,the titratable acid,the edible rate and vitamin C content are 0.4 g,40%,31.5%,4.11 g · kg-1,96.7% and 3.039 mg · g-1,respectively. It matures in late August in the southern mountains of Jinan. The fruit developing period is 80–85 days. This new cultivar has early maturity,high and steady yield,resistance to barren,strong adaptability,and can be cultivated in the jujube-growing areas.

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  • A New Late-maturing Table Chinese Jujube Cultivar‘Hanlucui’
  • SUN Junbao*,ZHANG Shengzhi,WANG Hongning,ZHANG Weizhong,and LIU Li
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2659-2660. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0380
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  • Hanlucui’was a new and excellent late-maturing table cultivar of Chinese jujube. The average fruit weight was 16.72 gand the edible ratio reached 93.3%. The fruit with a lower split rate,was glabrous,had a thin pericarp and fine textured pulp. It tasted sour-sweet,crisp and juicy.‘Hanlucui’was suitable to be cultivated in mid-south part of Shanxi Province,bearing fruit at the next year after planting,and it was bumper,average yield of a 4-year tree plot reached to 4–6 kg · plant-1,as while average yield of higher-grafting tree was 10 kg · plant-1 tree in the fourth year.

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  • A New Cultivar of Persimmon‘Zhongshi 1
  • DIAO Songfeng1,LI Fangdong1,LIANG Chen2,SUN Peng1,HAN Weijuan1,SUO Yujing1,and FU Jianmin1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2661-2662. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2016-0945
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  • Diospyros kaki Thunb.‘Zhongshi 1is a new cultivar,which is derived from mutation of a wild persimmon. The fruit is nearly flat-square shape and 132.7 g in average weight. It has excellent characteristics such as good quality,thin peel,texture of soft fruit and more fruit juicy,few-seed. Meanwhile,22% total soluble solids. The variety has high fertility,strong cold resistance,strong drought resistance,strong disease resistance. The fruit development period is 120 d from late May to late September in the western region of Henan Province. It is a processing-type persimmon elite variety for dried persimmon,persimmon vinegar,and persimmon liquor and persimmon frost.

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  • A New High Quality Citrus Cultivar‘Jinxiangcheng’
  • HONG Lin,WEI Zhaoxin,WU Chunqing,HAN Guohui,LI Xunlan,WANG Wu,YANG Lei,and CHENG Changfeng*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2663-2664. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0426
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  • ‘Jinxiangcheng’is a new sweet orange cultivar for fresh market,which is developed from female parent‘Licheng’orange crossed by‘Chandler’pomelo. The average fruit weight is 150–160 g. The fruit is oblate,with less than 0.6 seed. The pericarp is smooth,deep orange,with small oil glands. The flesh is crisp and tender,with moderate sugar/acid ratio and strong flavor. Total soluble solids content is 13.1%. Titratable acid is 9.6 mg · mL-1. Total surgar content is 102.6 mg · mL-1,vitamin C content is 468 mg · mL-1. Edible rate is 70.7%,and juice rate is 57.3%. The tree is vigorous,and yields well. The yield can reach to 40.58 kg per tree after grafted on 10-year-old‘Licheng’. The fruit ripens in late November. It is can be cultivated in Chongqing and similar ecological area with annual average temperature up to 17 ℃.

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  • Breeding of New Red Fleshed Pitaya Cultivar‘Jingdu 1
  • SU Weiqiang1,*,WANG Xiaomei1,WANG Jindu2,REN Hui1,WANG Yonghuan2,WANG Denan2,HE Bineng2,FANG Weikuan1,LIU Yeqiang1,DONG Long1,and QIU Wenwu1
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2665-2666. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0022
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  • ‘Jingdu 1is a new red flesh pitaya cultivar selected from the hybrid offspring of native speciesHylocereus costaricensis)and red flesh species(H. polyrhizus)of South America pitaya. The fruit is short oval,purplish red background color. The average fruit weight is about 572.5 g,and the soluble solids content is 21.2%. Edible rate is 78.8%. Its flesh is delicate,sweet,and it has rose fragrance. It grows strongly. To bloom easily,self compatibility,high yield,and excellent quality are its features. It is not easy to crack fruit. Suitable cultivation area is in south Guangxi and the similar climatic regions of South China.

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  • A New Strawberry Cultivar‘Hongxing’
  • YANG Li1,LI Li1,ZHANG Jianjun2,DONG Hui1,YANG Lei1,*,YANG Qiuye3,and YAN Jin’e4
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2667-2668. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2016-0935
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  • The fruit of‘Hongxing’strawberry is conical,bright red and shiny. The first grade fruit weight is 56.5 g,the second grade fruit weight is 28.6 g,the fruit is uniform and tidy. Fruit flesh is red,delicate,sweet and rich fragrant. The fruit contains 9.6%–11.8% soluble solids,4.25% reducing sugar,0.65% titratable acid and 0.44 mg ? g-1 vitamin C. Fruit firmness is 0.586 kg ? cm-2. It has high firmness and good shipping quality. The yield of per plant is up to 524.5 g. Plants are dormant,it is suitable for forcing culture.

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  • A New Strawberry Cultivar‘Miaoxiang 3
  • XIAO Yuansong,PENG Futian*,GAO Huaifeng,WANG Guodong,SUN Xiwu,and HE Yue
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2669-2670. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0800
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  • ‘Miaoxiang 3is a new strawberryFragaria × ananassa)from the cross of‘Hada’(male parent)and‘Akihime’(female parent). The fruit is cone-shaped. The average first order fruit weight is 40.1 g,the average of all fruit is 30.8 g and the maximum is 78.5 g. The fruit is flat and smooth and has bright red surface. The fruit soluble solids,sugar and acid ratio,vitamin C,fruit hardness is 9.8%,11.2,0.70 mg · g-1,and 0.56 kg · cm-2,respectively. In the Southeastern region of Shandong Province,it is planted in early September and the fruit began to mature in late December,and into full bearing period in early January the following year under forcing cultivation. It is suitable planted in forcing cultivation in Northern and Southern in China.

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  • A New Strawberry Cultivar‘Miaoxiang 7
  • XIAO Yuansong,PENG Futian*,ZHANG Yafei,and YU Wen
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2671-2672. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0669
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  • ‘Miaoxiang 7is a new strawberryFragaria × ananassa)cultivar from the cross of‘Beauty’and‘Sweet Charlie’. The fruit is cone-shaped. The average first order fruit weight is 44.3 g,the average of all fruit was 33.6 g and the maximum fruit weight was 64.2 g. The fruit is neat and it has bright red and full of luster fruit surface. The content of vitamin C,soluble solids,sugar and acid ratio,fruit hardness is 0.77 mg · g-1,9.9%,10.5 and 0.68 kg · cm-2,respectively. The storability is better. It’s ripening date is in late December in the greenhouse in Tai’an of Shandong Province.

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  • A New Chinese Cabbage Cultivar‘Qiuguan’
  • LI Guihua,CHEN Hancai*,ZHANG Yan,and LI Tingyao
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2673-2674. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0420
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  • ‘Qiuguan’which cultivated by self-incompatibility system is a pakchoi cultivar with strong adaptability and resistance to reversibility. It is good in quality. The plant is 22.1 cm in height and 27.5 cm in width. Leafstalk is 6.6 cm long and 5.1 cm wide,11 mm in thick. The soluble solids content is 4.0%,protein content is 2.08%,reducing sugar content is 0.796% and vitamin C content is 5.36 mg · kg-1,crude fiber content is 0.40%. The yield is 27 930 kg · hm-2 and 34 185 kg · hm-2 in spring and autumn respectively.‘Qiuguan’showed strong adaptability and resistance.

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  • A New Flowering Chinese Cabbage Cultivar‘Yutian 2 Caixin’
  • HUANG Hongdi*,ZHANG Hua,CAO Jiansong,LI Guangguang,and ZHENG Yansong
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2677-2678. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0225
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  • ‘Yutian 2 Caixin’ which cultivated by the male sterile hybrid breeding is a new hybrid of middle-late maturity flowering Chinese cabbage. The plant is upright compact,hairchested,well- proportioned,glossy dark green colour,fleshy tight and vigorous growth. Main sprouts are 26.2 cm in height,1.9 cm in thick,with 65 g in single sprout weight. It takes 44–47 days from sowing to harvest and is tidy. The ball-flower is big and standard.‘Yutian 2 Caixin’yields about 18 750 kg ? hm-2. It is suitable to grow in plain areas from early September to mid-December and from mid-March to early April in the second year.

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  • ‘Cuiyu 1’,A New F1 Hybrid Variety of Broccolini
  • LI Xiangyang*,LIU Zhenxiang,LIU Zizhu,ZHENG Yansong,ZHANG Hua,and LI Guangguang
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2679-2680. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0635
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  • ‘Cuiyu 1,a new variety of broccolini derives from the F1 hybrid of male sterile line K1-1-3A and inbred line K1-10-1,as female and male parents respectively. The variety has succulent,crisp and sweet-tasting flower stalks,with ulforaphane and vitamin C contents as 27.4 mg · kg-1 and 743 mg · kg-1,respectively. Furthermore,the variety shows rigorous branching,with a single plant averagely yielding 38 flower stalks in total including eight stalks on the first branches. The first-branch stalks are about 16 cm long and 1.7 cm in diameter,and each weighs about 40 g. The variety matures in its early-to-medium growth period,with the first harvest at 53 days after planted. The variety boasts of strong disease and stress resistances. In average,the variety yields the first-branch flower stalks for 9 922 kg · hm-2 in the comprehensive early period,and has a total yield of 22 016 kg · hm-2 .

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  • A New Eggplant Cultivar‘Lüyu 1
  • MI Guoquan,CHENG Zhifang,HAN Yongping,SHI Yanyan,HAN Yanan,and WANG Jinhua*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2681-2682. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0355
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  • ‘Lüyu 1is a new early-maturing eggplant hybrid derived from the cross‘Xinxiang Caoqingqie’בNetherlands Baiqie’. Its average fruit mass is 440 g and the yield is 78.66 t ? hm-2. The fruit has excellent quality and marketable characteristics such as long ovoid shape,green-white pericarp,sweet white flesh,non-browning and so on. It is high resistant to Verticillium wilt,Fusarium wilt,Phytophthora parasitica,tolerant to low temperature and weak light. It is suitable for growing in greenhouse of both early spring and late autumn open fields in the north of China.

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  • A New Eggplant Hybrid‘Haifeng Changqie 5
  • HUI Zhiming1,DENG Xiaomei1,XING Yongping2,ZHANG Shugen1,ZHANG Junmin1,WANG Zhenquan2,ZHANG Qin1,and LI Chunling1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2683-2684. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0688
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  • ‘Haifeng Changqie 5is a new long eggplant hybrid developed by crossing the double haploid line‘08-102as female parent with the double haploid line‘08-103as male parent. This cultivar has strong growth vigor. The fruit on average is 30.5 cm in length,5.2 cm in diameter and 256.5 g in weight. Its fruit peel is black-purple and smooth glossy. The average yield is 79 000 kg · hm-2. It is suitable to be cultivated in plastics greenhouse and open field in Guangdong,Shandong,Hebei,and Beijing.

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  • A New Pepper Cultivar‘Yuehong 3
  • LI Ying,WANG Hengming*,XU Xiaowan,XU Xiaomei,and HUANG Zhiwen*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2691-2692. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0328
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  • The plant of‘Yuehong 3is 92 cm in height and 68 cm in diameter,with the tenth node of the first flower. This cultivar is middle-late maturing,taking about 78 days from sowing to the first harvest. Its green ripe fruit is green,sheep-horn shaped and no furrow,with 19.5 cm in fruit length,1.8 cm in width and 0.24 cm in fresh thickness,weighing about 26 g per fruit. Its red ripe fruit is bright red,glossy and smooth. It is straight strip shaped,with high hardness for storage and transportation,having good quality and strong pungency. The average yield is 37.57 t ? hm-2.

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  • A New Pepper Cultivar‘Guofu 208’
  • CHEN Bin1,ZHANG Xiaofen1,DU Heshan1,CHENG Lin2,and GENG Sansheng1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2693-2694. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0540
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  • ‘Guofu 208’is a new mid-early ripening pepper F1 hybrid developed by crossing‘06-4’as female parent and‘06-54’as male parent. The plant has strong growth vigor. The fresh fruit is of horn shape with smooth skin. The green mature fruit is light green and matured one is bright red. The single fresh fruit weight is 70–90 g. The fruit is 21.0–25.0 cm in length,3.5 cm in width,suitable for transportion. It is resistance to TMV and bacterial wilt,tolerant of high temperature and high humidity. And it is suitable for cultivation in protected fields in North and in open fields in South China.

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  • A New Pumpkin Cultivar‘Beimi 1’
  • WANG Changlin*,DUAN Ying,and HU Jun
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2695-2696. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0358
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  • ‘Beimi 1’is a new F1 cultivar of pumpkin(Cucurbita moschata)which was selected from the crossing inbred line‘12-43’and‘12-32’. The average single fruit weight is about 2.0–3.0 kg. The rind color of the long pear-shape fruit is yellowish brown covered with light stripes. The fruit tastes sweet with a good quality. The nutrient and yield is higher than other cultivars. The yield is up to 52.5 t · hm-2. It is suitable for open cultivation in Beijing in early spring.

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  • A New Hybrid Chieh-qua Cultivar‘Guanhua 6
  • LIN Jinying*,QIAO Yanchun,XIE Weiping,TAN Xue,and XIE Lifang
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2697-2698. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0314
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  • ‘Guanhua 6,the F1 hybrid derived from crossing D2-2-2 × B-4,is a novel chieh-qua cultivar of early-maturing,heat-tolerance and high yield. The fruits are cylindrical and long,21.7–23.2 cm in length and 7.35–7.55 cm in diameter,with dark green hairy peel and firm,light-sweet flesh 1.53–1.65 cm in thickness. This cultivar is high resistant to heat,cold,waterlogging and drought and is suitable for cultivation in spring and autumn in southern China areas with a yield of 45–65 t · hm-2.

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  • A New Snap Bean Cultivar‘E Caidou 1
  • CHEN Chanyou*,GUO Rui,HU Zhihui,and PAN Lei
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2699-2700. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0392
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  • ‘E Caidou 1is a new rambling snap bean cultivar which is bred by systematic screening of the crossbreeding between female parent‘JD-5and male parent‘Honghua Sijidou’. Its pod is light green,straight,with thick pod wall. The average length and weight of the pod are 19.0 cm and 13.0 g,respectively. The edible pod is rich in nutrient ingredients,but poor in four anti-nutritional factors.‘E Caidou 1shows early maturity and average yield of 24 750 kg · hm-2 by trails. It is suitable for planting in spring and autumn in Hubei regions.

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  • A New Flammulina velutipes Cultivar‘Shangyan 1’
  • ZHANG Dan,WANG Ruijuan,XU Zhen,SONG Chunyan,LIU Jianyu,SHANG Xiaodong*,and TAN Qi*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2701-2702. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0139
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  • ‘Shangyan 1’is a new cultivar of edible mushroom Flammulina velutipes which is selected from inbred progenies of strain‘T011’by multispore selfing. The fruit body is white,with spherical and enwrapping caps. Gills are rectilinear and arrange rules. The production is 360–390 g(1 100 mL cultivation bottle). The cultivation period of mycelium stage is 22–23 days,and the fruit body stage is 25 days. In addition,it has many excellent characteristics,such as strong resistance,more primordia,good regularity and high quality.

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  • A New Amorphophallus muelleri Cultivar‘Gengyu 2’
  • WU Xuewei1,YE Hui1,*,LIU Dandan1,WU Zhicheng2,LI Lin1,YANG Yuyan1,WANG Lihua3,*,and WU Haolin2
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2705-2706. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0805
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  • ‘Gengyu 2’is a new konjac cultivar bred from Amorphophallus muelleri varieties populations by systematic breeding method.‘Gengyu 2’achieves on higher yield and resistant to diseases. The average yield is up to 45 t · hm-2,50% higher than that of local A. konjac seed. The morbidity of bacterial soft rot decreased 60% than local A. konjac seed. The growth period is 240 d. The corm has 52.8% dry matter,which has 43.69% konjac glucomannan(KGM)and 14 600 mPa · s viscosity. It is suitable to be cultivated in altitude 600–1 600 m of Southeast of China mountain.

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  • A New Cultivar of Marigold‘Jinyu’
  • ZHANG Huali,LI Zijing,QIN Helan,SONG Lina,and XIN Haibo*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2711-2712. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0787
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  • Marigold cultivar‘Jinyu’is developed from a cross of female parent(male sterile material)S-121 × male parent I-506. It is a medium-height F1 cultivar with golden and honeycomb flowers. The average plant height is 46 cm and the crown diameter is 52 cm,and flower size is 9.6 cm. The new cultivar has resistance to disease and pests and has vigorous growth and good characters of uniform. This new cultivar may be used during May Day and National Day holiday in Beijing.

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  • A New Cultivar of Marigold‘Chengyu’
  • XIN Haibo,SONG Lina,LI Zijing,DONG Aixiang,and ZHANG Huali*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2713-2714. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0788
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  • Marigold cultivar‘Chengyu’is developed from a cross of female parent(male sterile material)S-121 × male parent I-138. It is a medium-height F1 cultivar with orange and honeycomb flowers. The average plant height is 54 cm and the crown diameter is 53 cm,and flower size is 9.2 cm. The new cultivar is resistant to heat,few disease and pests and has vigorous growth and good characters of uniform. This new cultivar may be used during May Day and National Day holiday in Beijing.

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  • A New Iris sanguinea Cultivar‘Bandie’
  • WANG Kai and WANG Ling
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2715-2716. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0143
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  • Iris sanguinea‘Bandie’is a new cultivar selected from the natural hybrid progeny of the Iris sanguinea and Iris sanguinea f. albiflora,and it has long-green period,unique flower pattern,perianth lobes and styles margin with white stripes. Plant height is about 85 cm in blooming period,and the crown width is about 40–60 cm after planted two years. Each plant has about 20–30 scapes,and the single scape have 2 or 3 flowers,flower diameter is about 8 cm. Flowering:June–July,fruiting:September–October,and the continuous flowering is about 20 days. It’s suitable to be applied in the north of China.

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  • A New Iris sanguinea Cultivar‘Tingdie’
  • WU Luyao,JIN Hua,CHEN Yanni,ZHANG Bihan,and WANG Ling*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2717-2718. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0190
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  • Iris sanguinea‘Tingdie’is a new cut-flower cultivar selected from the natural hybrid progenies of Iris sanguinea. Plant height is about 127 cm in blooming period. It’s scape is strong and neat,heighting 109–114 cm,the crown width is about 55–65 cm after planted two years. Simple bundle has about 25–30 scapes,and the single scape have about 2–3 flowers,flower diameter is about 11 cm. Flowering in May–June,and the continuous flowering is about 22 days. In the north of China,it grows well over the winter in the open area.

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  • A New Iris sanguinea Cultivar‘Balei Nü’
  • TANG Biao1,WANG Kai1,WANG Dan2,and WANG Ling1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2719-2720. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0676
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  • Iris sanguinea‘Balei Nü’is a new cultivar selected from the natural hybrid progenies of Iris sanguinea. Plant height is about 60 cm in full-bloom stage,the crown width is about 52 cm after planted two years. Simple bundle has 18–25 scapes,and the single scape has about 2–3 flowers. The flower is unique and graceful. Outer perianth spreading,inner perianth vertical upward,color violet,flower diameter is about 9 cm,and the continuous flowering is about 20 days. It grows well over the winter in the open area in Harbin. It’s suitable to be popularized and applied in the north area of China.

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  • A New Cymbidium Cultivar‘Junhao’
  • XIE Yuehua1,DENG Wenmin1,ZENG Ruizhen2,DU Guohui2,ZHOU Shanshan2,GUO Herong2,XIE Li2,ZENG Feiyan2,LI Jin2,and ZHANG Zhisheng2,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2721-2722. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0407
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  • Cymbidium‘Junhao’is a new potted cultivar with orange color developed from the cross combination of Cymbidium Maureen Carter‘Dafeng’and Cymbidium sinense‘Qijian Baimo’. It is easy to produce seedlings by both micropropagation and division method. The average number of flowers in an inflorescence is ten. The flower has pleasant aroma,its average transverse and longitudinal diameters are 6.8 cm and 5.4 cm,respectively. When cultured in greenhouse,it begins to blooming in the middle of February and the flowering lasts 35–45 d.

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  • A New Chinese Cymbidium Cultivar‘Yuxiang’
  • ZENG Ruizhen1,LI Yanghui2,XIE Li1,GUO Herong1,YI Maosheng2,SU Qinglian2,and ZHANG Zhisheng1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2723-2724. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0456
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  • Cymbidium‘Yuxiang’is a new Chinese Cymbidium potted cultivar with a pleasant aroma,which was developed from the cross combination of Cymbidium sinense‘Xiaoxiang’and Cymbidium lancifolium. It belongs to small plant type Cymbidium with oblanceolate leaves,and is easy to produce seedlings by both micropropagation and division method. Its flower is purple in color and above the leaves. When cultured in greenhouse,it begins to bloom in early January and the flowering lasts 20–30 d. There are about 6.9 flowers in an inflorescence with the average diameter of 5.0 cm.

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  • Selection for Four New Varieties in Michelia crassipes
  • SONG Xiaochen1,JIANG Xiangmei1,CHENG Qiangqiang1,TIAN Jing1,ZENG Xianrong2,ZENG Xiu2,and XIAO Fuming1,*
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2729-2730. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0446
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  • Michelia crassipes,‘Heyun Wuxia’,‘Fengfei Zhitou’,‘Xiaokou Changkai’and‘Zixia Mantian’,were screened from the offsprings of free pollination. They are characterized by unique flowers,long flowering date from Febuary to May. ‘Heyun Wuxia’is dark purple,stamens black,and the top round is blunt;‘Fengfei Zhitou’is red-purple,and the secondary color is light green;‘Xiaokou Changkai’is red-purple,and the tip of petals are slight folded;‘Zixia Mantian’is red-purple,and in the middle of the petal is white stripe. All four varieties are suitable for viewing in the courtyard and bonsai.

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  • A New Cultivar of Robinia pseudoacacia‘Ziyan Qingshan’
  • MAO Xiuhong1,XUN Shouhua1,*,SUN Baiyou2,QIAO Yuling1,ZHANG Zihe2,ZHANG Yuanshuai2, DONG Yuanfu2,and DONG Yufeng1
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2731-2732. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0025
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  • Robinia pseudoacacia‘Ziyan Qingshan’is a new fast-growing and ornamental cultivar selected from the seedlings of R. pseudoacacia after years of cultivation and observation.It grows more rapidly with straighter tree trunk,larger amount of papilionaceous flowers and legumes compared with ordinary black locust. The color of these legumes is gorgeous purple and changeable during the period of young,mid-mature and mature,presenting atropurpureus,puce and tenne,respectively. So it is a really valuable variety for viewing flowers,fruits and bee-keeping. Meanwhile,the new plant is of great value in ecological protection. It can be propagated and afforested easily. Moreover,it can be cultivated widely in the world.

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  • New Cultivars of Salvia miltiorrhiza‘Danza 1and‘Danza 2
  • WEN Chunxiu,LIU Lingdi*,XIE Xiaoliang,TIAN Wei,JIA Dongsheng,BIAN Jianbo,WANG Miaomiao,OUYANG Yanfei,and GENG Dandan
  • Acta Horticulturae Sinica. 2017, 44(s2): 2747-2748. DOI:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2017-0297
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  • The two cultivars,Salvia miltiorrhiza‘Danza 1and‘Danza 2,were come from hybridization breeding by‘Jidan 2,the female parent. The male parents were‘D0501and‘Jidan 1,respectively. The two cultivars are of high yield and content of medicinal ingredients,with good resistance to root rot. The yield of‘Danza 1’is 5 629.5 kg · hm-2,14.7% higher than the Anguo cultivation. For ‘Danza 1,the tanshionⅡA content is 0.25% and the salvianolic acid B content is 8.10%. The yield of‘Danza 2’is 5 578.5 kg · hm-2,13.7% higher than the Anguo cultivation. For‘Danza 2,the tanshionⅡA content is 0.29% and the salvianolic acid B content is 11.7%.

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