New varieties of Lycium barbarum in Hebei can greatly increase production.

??? Recently, a new wolfberry variety "Baoqi No. 1" bred by Wang Fengbao, a professor at Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, passed the expert appraisal organized by the Provincial Science and Technology Achievements Transformation Service Center.

??? According to reports, the province's wolfberry industry has problems of small fruit, low yield and poor quality. Wang Fengbao and his project team spent 10 years to carry out the breeding of new varieties of Lycium barbarum with high yield, high quality and disease resistance, and finally obtained a new autotetraploid variety "Baoqi No.1" of Lycium barbarum. The variety has the excellent characteristics of big fruit, high yield, good quality and disease resistance. The average fruit weight is 1.5 g. The average yield of fresh fruit per mu of three-year-old plants is 750 kg, which is 229.2% higher than that of the control variety "Zushanhong". The successful breeding of new varieties will help to enhance the market competitiveness of wolfberry industry in this province and promote the sustained and rapid development of wolfberry industry.

?? ? Zhou Chao