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Some early maturing table grape cultivars with muscat flavor realeased by Beijing Institute
of Forestry and Pomology
H.Y. Xu, G.J. Zhang, A.L. Yan, L. Sun*, W. Wang
Institute of Forestry and Pomology, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Science,
Beijing, China
*Corresponding author: sunlei.bjfu@gmail.com
In China, people like to eat the grapes with muscat flavor, but in the market of Beijing areas, the
early ripening cultivars are very limited. A breeding program was started in the Institute of
Forestry and Pomology 50 years ago aiming to get early ripening table grape cultivars with
muscat flavor and adaptation for local areas. Since that time approximately 150000 seedlings
have been grown from the 2500 crosses, the germplasm used were the traditional cultivars of
Vitis vinifera, Muscat of Hamburg was chosen as the female parent for its muscat flavor, Pearl of
Csaba and Jingzaojing were chosen as the male parents due to their muscat flavor and early
ripening characteristics. To date seven new table grape cultivars have been released to the public,
Xiangfei, maturing at the first to second week of July with yellow to golden color.
Ruiduxiangyu, very crispy and sweet, berry size over 18mm. Emerald with yellow green skin
color and good resistant to disease. Agate early, maturing at the third to fourth week of July and
good resistant to cold. Purple Pearl, purple skin color with good keeping quality. Muscat Early,
similar to Muscat of Hamburg but maturing 3 weeks earlier, and Muscat Angel is seedless with
purple reddish color, all of them inherited the flavor of Muscat Hamburg and maturing date was
early than the comparative cultivars. These cultivars have been used in the Beijing grape
growing area and spread to some northern provinces.
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