A new triploid seedless watermelon variety‘Zhongnong Wuzi No. 2’
LIU Wenge
HE Nan
ZHAO Shengjie
LU Xuqiang
Abstract：‘Zhongnong Wuzi No. 2’is a new triploid seedless watermelon by crossing tetraploid line‘MMD’as female parent with diploid line‘K5M’as male parent. It’s a mid-late maturity variety. The total growing period is about 105 days,and the fruit development period is about 35 days. The plant grows vigorously and resistant to Fusarium wilt. The fruit has beautiful appearance,oval shape,dark skin with wax powder. The average fruit weight is about 6-9 kg. The bright red flesh is hard crisp with soluble solid content 12% in center. It has few small white blighted seed traces,en?riched juice,good profile and good flavor quality. It is about 5 000 kg yield per 667 m2 and good transportation. The fruit commodity rate is over 95%,The variety has good adaptability and can be grown in most watermelon production areas in China.
Keywords：Seedless watermelonTriploidNew cultivar‘Zhongnong Wuzi No. 2’
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 29-32 )