‘Jinfu 4’is a new medium-late ripening apple cultivar selected from the bud mutation of ‘Jinfu 1’. The fruit is oblong in shape and the averaged single fruit weight is 240.5 g. The fruit skin is glossy with yellow-green ground color and deep red over color. The flesh is juicy,sweet-sour,palatable and aromatic. The fruit is good in taste quality with a firmness of 8.91 kg ? cm-2 and a soluble solids content of 14.93%. The duration of fruit development is 150–155 d. The cultivar is easy-flowering,stable and productive,and the yield can reach to 46.58–48.62 t ? hm-2.
‘Lujin’is a new walnut cultivar derived from the cross of‘Lüxiang’בXiangling’. The nut is round in shape and the average nut weight is 13.1 g. The nut shell is smooth and the walnut husk thickness ranged from 0.8 to 1.0 mm. It is easy to take out the whole kernel for degraded dissepiment. The shell has convex sutures which are tight. The kernel is full and plump. The color of kernel is light yellow and it tastes fragrant. The kernel rate,total fat and protein content are 60.2%,70.2% and 20.6%,respectively. The yield is 3 085.5 kg ? hm-2 in the seventh year after grafted on‘Jizhaomian’.
‘Hongyun 231’is a new F1 hybrid of tomato developed by crossing B28 as female parent and S7 as male parent. It is indeterminate,middle lately ripening,and strongly vigorous. Fruits are rounded,red,no green shoulders,firm,tolerant to cracking and storage with high commercial fruit rate. Average fruit weight is about 150 g. It is resistant to TMV,middle-resistant to Fusarium wilt and gray leaf spot. Average yield is more than 70.0 t ? hm-2. It is suitable for open cultivation in spring.
A new pepper hybrid‘Chunzao 1’is developed by crossing two inbred lines‘2014X12’and‘2014X46’. As an early maturing hybrid,the first flower node is 7–8. The shape of fruit is long lanky lantern,14.5 cm in length,4.8 cm in width,and 0.27 cm in flesh thickness,72.5 g in weight. The fruit is light green in immature and slightly spicy. The yield of fresh fruit is up to 58 560 kg · hm-2. It is highly resistant to anthracnose,resistant to TMV and moderately resistant to CMV in field investigation. It is tolerant to low temperature and weak light and fit for protected cultivation in spring in Jiangsu and Shandong provinces.
‘Kehuanuo 828’,bred by Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences,is a fresh-eating waxy maize hybrid of DN830 and D518. The yield is 13.25 t ? hm-2,the content of amylopectin is 98.23%,random distribution of purple and white,the variety has the characteristics of good quality,fragrant,sweet,soft,glutinous.
‘Milian’is a new cultivar selected from the natural hybrid progenies of Iris sanguinea f. albiflora. The flower of‘Mi Lian’is bigger and the diameter is about 9.89 cm. The three inner perianths of ‘Milian’tilt upward about 30°,the three spoon-type part of outer perianths open almost horizontally. Flowering time is from mid June to early July,and fruiting time is from August to September.‘Milian’grows well over the winter in the open area in Harbin,it’s suitable to be applied in the north area of China.
‘SCBG Zijun’is a new cultivar of Paphiopedilum developed by tissue culture of a seed crossed from two excellent strains of female parent Paph. charlesworthii and male parent Paph. ‘Blacklight’. This cultivar is characterized by strong growth vigor. The surface of leaves of the cultivar is yellow-green with irregular dark-green stripes. The dark-purple inflorescence is nearly erect with thick hairs,its average length is 15.1 cm with an pinkish-purple flower,8.6 cm in average transverse diameter and 8.7 cm in vertical diameter. Middle sepals are nearly round and their sides roll back. Yellowish-brown petals are spoonful and curly in lengthways. Labellum is helmet-shaped and yellowish-brown. The full-blossom is in March and the lifetime of a single flower is 40 to 45 d.
The new cultivar of ornamental lotus‘Qiantang Jiaoyang’was bred from the seedlings of ‘Fengjuan Hongqi’.‘Qiantang Jiaoyang’is a large-sized semi-double petal lotus with morphological characteristics as follows:the height of erect leaves is 107–122 cm,leaf length is 32–41 cm,leaf width is 27–31 cm. Color of flower is red. Flower outer petal number is 21–27,inner petal number is 3–14. Flower diameter is 19–23 cm. There are 11–27 flowers per pot.
The new cultivar of waterlily‘Fen Dai’was bred from the seedlings of a famous waterlily named‘Ostra’. It is a large plant with double petals of radial shape and light pink color. The flower has 80–100 petals,16–19 cm in diameter,10–17 cm in emergence height above water and 4 sepals. The leaves surfaces are green with some irregular purple-brown patches and the shape of the leaf is oval with marginal serrations. The average leaf area is 36 cm × 33 cm.‘Fen Dai’is a tropical waterlily and can cross the winter naturally in Nanning.
Sophora japonica‘Qingyun 1’is a fast-growing new cultivar discovered in the natural seedlings of Sophora japonica. The tree is beautiful with straight and dark green trunk. The growth rate of plant height and diameter at breast height(DBH)was significantly higher than that of normal Sophora japonica with 2.58 times and 3.02 times respectively in 1 year old seedlings. Sophora japonica‘Qingyun 1’is an excellent urban greening tree. It can also be used as an excellent rootstock for grafting Sophora japonica f. flavi-rameus.