High-yield and High-quality Mindou No. 13 Soybeans for Fresh Consumption

  Objective  A high-yield and high-quality soybean for fresh consumption suitable to be cultivated in Fujian was bred to meet the market demand.

  Method  In a sexual hybridization, Zhexian 12 was selected as the female parent and Jiaoda 18 as the male parent to breed varieties of the target soybeans.

  Result  A line exhibiting the desirable genetic inheritance from the parents was code-named 17B34-2-1. In the winter of 2019, the average yield of fresh pods from the new soybean variety was 11753.40 kg·hm⁻², which was significantly 15.00% higher than that of Maodou No. 3 (CK). It was, subsequently, named Mindou No. 13 which delivered an average fresh pod yield of 11348.40 kg·hm⁻² representing an increase of 4.07% over CK in the 2020 and 2021 Fujian Provincial Regional Trials. It was officially certified by the Fujian Provincial Committee on Crop Variety Identification in July 2022.

  Conclusion  The newly bred Mindou No. 13 was a widely adaptable, mid-season crop suitable for spring planting in Fujian that gave high yield of fresh beans with appealing eating quality.