Breeding of a new screw pepper cultivar Qixuan 999
LIU Yongpeng
QI Weiqiang
DONG Shuangbao
YANG Senyao
ZHU Weiling
YANG Fan
MAO Dan
YAO Qiuju
Abstract：Qixuan 999 is a new early screw pepper F1 hybrid developed by crossing the inbred line L064 as the female par-ent and L091 as the male parent.This cultivar has strong plant growth,medium-long internodes,good continuous fruiting ability,and rapid fruit expansion.The fruit is dark green and turns red after maturity.The average fruit mass is 76.7 g,the longitudinal diameter of the fruit was 26.0 cm,the transverse diameter was 4.24 cm,and the pulp thickness was 0.19 cm.The capsaicin content was 0.260 g·kg-1,and the vitamin C content was 82 mg·100 g-1.Qixuan 999 has good disease resistance to blight,moderate resistance to cucumber mosaic viruse(CMV)and tobacco mosaic virus(TMV).The average yield reaches 4000 kg per 667 m2.This cultivar is suitable for early spring and autumn protected areas and open field planting in the Huang Huai Hai ecological zone of Henan province.
Keywords：Screw pepperNew cultivarQixuan 999Early maturityDisease-resistantce
Publication Date：2026-03-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-03-26(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 229-232 )