Submitting New Vegetable Cultivar Descriptions
Instructions
1. Check to see if your new cultivar is
already in the Vegetable
Cultivar Descriptions
2. Make a description of the new vegetable
cultivar -
- Vegetable crop:
- Cultivar name:
- Experimental designation:
- Breeder:
- Vendor:
- Parentage:
- Characteristics:
- Resistance:
- Similar:
- Adaptation:
- Reference:
- PVP:
- Year released:
- Photograph:
3. Send description by email (or fax or mail) to -
4. You may want to include a photograph (or digital
image in TIFF or JPEG)
5. If you do not get a response to your email or fax
submission of the cultivar description, please resubmit
it (occasionally, email or fax transmissions fail)
6. Example-
January 1, 2003
Memorandum
TO: Todd Wehner (todd_wehner@ncsu.edu)
FROM: John Smith, Plant Breeder (Vegetable Seed Co.)
SUBJECT: New vegetable cultivar description
We just released a new vegetable cultivar, which is described
below. Please add it to the vegetable cultivar list.
Thank you.
- Description of Cultivar 1
- Vegetable crop: Cucumber
- Cultivar name: Raleigh
- Experimental designation: G 56
- Breeder: R.L. Lower, T.C. Wehner and S.F. Jenkins
Jr. (University of Wisconsin, Madison and North Carolina
State University, Raleigh)
- Vendor: United Genetics
- Parentage: F1 hybrid, Gy 4 x M 21
- Characteristics: predominantly gynoecious pickling
hybrid, dark green fruit, L/D 3.1, good processing quality
- Resistance: scab, fusarium wilt, cucumber mosaic
virus, downy mildew, powdery mildew, anthracnose, angular
leaf spot
- Similar: Calypso
- Adaptation: wide; most cucumber production areas
of the U.S.
- Reference: HortScience 26:77-78
- PVP: none
- Year released: 1991
- Photograph: none
