The Cultivation of 'Yumekaori' for Green Tea which is Resistant to Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozetti)

Abstract

A new cultivar 'Yumekaori' for green tea was bred at the Tea Branch Facility, Miyazaki Agricultural Research Institute and registered as Cha Norin No.54 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in October, 2006. This cultivar was selected out of seedlings crossed between 'Sayamakaori' and 'Miyazaki No.8' in 1986. 'Yumekaori' is the first cultivar in Japan which was bred for the resistance to Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (TargioniTozetti). The characteristics of this cultivar are as follows ; This cultivar is early budding, the plucking time of the 1st crop is about 4 days earlier than