Claim · model-written summary
The authors identify B 5669 as the most desirable breeding material because it combines cold germinability with fruit quality.
- Taxon
- Cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Material
- B 5669e0
- Outcome
- most desirable to breederse0
- Qualifier
- cold germinability combined with good fruit quality traitse0
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Verbatim
e0“Cucumber cultigens B 5669, PI 390953, and PI 246903 showed low temperature tolerance, but of them B 5669 may become the most desirable to breeders since it exhibits cold germinability combined with good fruit quality traits.”
Title
Low temperature seed germination of cucumber: genetic basis of the tolerance trait
Urszula Kłosińska; Elżbieta U. Kozik; Marcin Nowicki; et al. Journal of Horticultural Research 2013. doi:10.2478/johr-2013-0031
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation B 5669 and PI 390953 had the highest germinability at 13 °C, without significant differences in germination rate, days to germination, or germination index.
- Observation Seven hybrid cucumber populations differed in germination ability at 13 °C.
- Observation B 5669 had the fastest low temperature germination and germination of 78% on day 6.
- Observation B 5669 germination reached 100% on day 10.
- Observation B 5669 germinated fastest, with an average DTG of 5.7.
- Observation B 6115 and BC1P2 did not germinate at 13 °C within 21 days.
- Observation F2 seed germinability fits a three-recessive gene model.
- Observation B 5669, PI 390953, and PI 246903 showed low temperature tolerance.