Abstract:

‘Jixiang’pear is a new cultivor with strong resistance to cold and disease selected from the‘Pingguo’pear seedling. The fruit is green-yellow;sunny slope has a flush;the fruit shape is neat,round;the average fruit weight is about 145 g;and the maximum fruit is 195 g. The flesh is white and crispy at the beginning of ripening,then it becomes soft juicy,sweet and sour,fragrant after ripening 7 d. The core of Jixiang pear is small,with few the stone cells. The quality is excellent;the soluble solids content is 14.2%,and the soluble sugar is 8.54%. The titratable acid content is 0.69%. The five-year plants have strong resistance to cold disease with high yield of 20 000 kg · hm^-2.

Key words: pear, cold resistance, disease resistance