Breeding of big fruit seedless watermelon cultivar ‘ Heishen 98’
ZHOU Quan
ZHU Biefang
MA Luping
YI Xuesai
LUO Zhongqin
ZHOU Jian
ZHOU Xiangbin
Abstract：‘Heishen 98’ is a new mid-late maturing triploid seedless watermelon cultivar bred by crossing tetraploid line ‘9068’ as female parent with diploid line ‘D89-4’ as male parent.Its plant grows vigorously,and the whole growth period is about 104 days from sowing.This cultivar is characterized by its short-oval fruit with shape index of 1.05,pitch-black exocarp covered with wax powder,about 1.2 cm pericarp thickness.The skin is smooth without edge groove and red fruit flesh with crisp and fine texture,and about 12％ and 8.5％ of center and side soluble solids content.The fruit developing period is about 34 days from female flower blooming.The first female flower on main vine appears in the 6th to 8th node,followed by female flower each 4-5 nodes.This fruit sets easily with very few fiber content and seed traces and tastes very delicious.The fruit has good store and transport properties with 90％ of marketable rate and displays good shelf life,because its pericarp is firm and strong.‘Heishen 98’ has strong disease resistance and the average fruit weight is about 6.0-8.0 kg and the yield on 667 m2 is about 3 000-3 500 kg.The variety adaptability is strong and can be cultivated all over the country.
Keywords：Seedless watermelonNew variety‘ Heishen 98’Big fruitRed flesh
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 22-25 )