关键词: 西瓜, 品种, 早熟

Abstract: Tianjiao is an early-maturing, high quality, and disease resistant new cultivar of watermelon bred by YB-7 as female parent and ZJ-4 as male parent. It is early-maturing cultivar with a growth period of 94 days. The fruit is spherical in shape and fruit shape index is 1.0. The fruit peel is light green mixed with dark green stripe in colour and is 1.0 cm in thickness. The mass of a single fruit is 5-6 kg. The yield is 45 t·hm^-2 or more. It is highly resistant to anthrax of watermelon, watermelon virus disease, and moderately resistant to watermelon with disease. Its flesh is red in colour, crisp, less fibber content. The content of central soluble solids is 11.94%. It is resistant to cracking and convenient to store and transport with high quality.

Key words: watermelon, cultivar, early-maturing