Introduction test on a middle-late maturing carrot variety “Jingxi No.8”

An introduced middle-late maturing carrot variety “Jingxi No.8” was studied. The result showed that Jingxi No.8 had some characters of good performance, little biomass amount of stems, branches and leaves, strong resistance, fleshy root was cylindrical and blunt taper, good tail and body, individuals are consistent , the color of skin, pulp and centre part were deep orange red and uniform, without obvious white bound and broken ring, good commodity, high yield, etc. It showed that Jingxi No.8 was a promising variety in extending and further breeding as fresh food and processing type, and suggested to be further tested and demonstrated.