桂粉蹄1号是采用单株选择与生物技术——茎尖组培脱毒技术结合培育而成的荸荠新品种,是目前国内外首个通过省级品种审定的专用于加工荸荠粉的品种。其特点:每年以组培苗作为种苗,生长势旺、分蘖强、球茎大而均匀,在20个大球茎中横径〉3.00cm的占90%,纵径〉1.90cm的占100%,而对照广州番禺水蹄(原种)分别占40%、45%,每667m2产球茎约1900kg,比对照提高幅度为5.2%~27.0%,淀粉含量为12.7.0%。
'Guifenti No.1' is a new starch-based water chestnut variety bred by individual selection and biological technology-cultivated with virus-free tip tissue biotechnology.It is the first variety in China used specially for processing water chestnut powder and approved by provincial authority.This new variety is fast-growing with strong tillering ability,big and uniform corms.There are 90 % corms with horizontal diameter 3.00 cm,100 % vertical diameter 1.90 cm among 20 corms by random selection.While in the control group,the ratios are only 40 % and 45 %,respectively.Its yield is 28.5 t·hm-2,5.2 %-27.0 % higher than the control.Its starch content is 12.7 %.