In order to study effects of salt stress on changes of soil microbial quantities and the diversity of soil microbial community by the technology of PCR-DGGE, two kinds of cucumbers with different saline tolerance were selected,Jinchun 5(salt-tolerant)and Jinyou 1(salt-sensitive),and four concentrations of NaCl were designed(0,100,200 and 300 mmol · L-1). The results showed that salt stress could reduce the richness of soil bacterial community significantly(P<0.05). The richness of salt-sensitive cultivar was high under low salt treatment, while the richness of salt-tolerant cultivar was high under high salt treatment. High salt stress had more effects on the rhizosphere bacterial community structure of salt-tolerant cultivar. Sequences of different bands of four stages belonged to four bacterial groups,Firmicutes,Proteobacteria,Gemmatimonadetes and Bacteroidetes. Most of them belonged to Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria. With the increasing of salt concentration,the plant heights of cucumber and yield per plant reduced.
‘Hongxingyu’is a new seeded and small-sized watermelon cultivar which was developed from sexual hybridization. The whole growth period is about 94 days and the fruit maturing stage is 29–30 days. The mass of single melon is 2.2–2.4 kg. The fruit is oval and its skin is green with about 17 greenish black stripes on the surface. The center and side sugar contents are 11.85% and 9.10%,respectively.‘Hongxingyu’has the feature of little crude fiber,good quality,high sugar content,wet and draught tolerance.