High-yield and High-quality Mindou No.13 Soybeans for Fresh Consumption
[Objective]A high-yield and high-quality soybean for fresh consumption suitable to be cultivated in Fujian was bred to meet the market demand.[Method]In a sexual hybridization,Zhexian 12 was selected as the female parent and Jiaoda 18 as the male parent to breed varieties of the target soybeans.[Result]A line exhibiting the desirable genetic inheritance from the parents was code-named 17B34-2-1.In the winter of 2019,the average yield of fresh pods from the new soybean variety was 11753.40 kg·hm-2,which was significantly 15.00%higher than that of Maodou No.3(CK).It was,subsequently,named Mindou No.13 which delivered an average fresh pod yield of 11348.40 kg·hm-2 representing an increase of 4.07%over CK in the 2020 and 2021 Fujian Provincial Regional Trials.It was officially certified by the Fujian Provincial Committee on Crop Variety Identification in July 2022.[Conclusion]The newly bred Mindou No.13 was a widely adaptable,mid-season crop suitable for spring planting in Fujian that gave high yield of fresh beans with appealing eating quality.
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