A New Apple Cultivar‘Zhongping Zaohong 4’

doi:10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2025-0666

Acta Horticulturae Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (S2): 7-8.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2025-0666

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A New Apple Cultivar‘Zhongping Zaohong 4’

HAN Xiaolei, MA Songya, KANG Liqun, ZHANG Caixia^*

Key Laboratory of Fruit Germplasm Resources Utilization,Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/National Apple Breeding Center,Research Institute of Pomology,Chinese Academy Agricultural Sciences,Xingcheng,Liaoning 125100,China

Received:2025-07-18 Revised:2025-09-19 Online:2025-10-28 Published:2025-11-03

Abstract

Abstract: ‘Zhongping Zaohong 4’is a new mid-ripening apple cultivar selected from the progenies of‘Golden Delicious’and‘Huayue’. The fruit is narrow conical with a fruit shape index of 1.2,small in size with an average weight of 98 grams per fruit. Yellow ground color with stripes red overcolor,good surface finish. The flesh is in light yellow color,loose,crispy,juicy,with a peel hardness of 7.0 kg · cm^-2. The flavor is sweet-tart with a soluble solid substance of 13.8% and a total titratable acid content of 0.26%. The fruit development period is approximately 120 days. The yield is 17 808 kg · hm^-2,and it matured in early September in the western Liaoning.

Key words: apple, mid-ripening, cultivar

CLC Number:

S661.1

HAN Xiaolei, MA Songya, KANG Liqun, ZHANG Caixia. A New Apple Cultivar‘Zhongping Zaohong 4’[J]. Acta Horticulturae Sinica, 2025, 52(S2): 7-8.

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