Fruit characters of Cucumis melo L.: ‘tacapa green black’, ‘melona’ and ‘meloni’

Abstract

Melon has high demand, but most of the Indonesian farmers planted import seeds of melon which has expensive price. Hence, Indonesia should produce high-quality melon seeds. This research used three melon cultivars ( Cucumis melo L.): ‘Tacapa Green Black (GB) ’, ‘Melona’, and ‘Meloni’ which are the result of breeding in Genetic and Breeding Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Gadjah Mada University. The purpose of this study is to describe fruit morphological characters of these melon cultivar s. ‘Tacapa GB’ is breeding result of Testcross ♀ ‘ Act3 434 ’ X F1 ‘ PI 371795 ’, ‘Melona’ is segregation from ‘Luna’ and ‘Meloni’ is breeding result of ♀ ‘SL-3’ X ♂ ‘PI 371795’. Seeds of ‘Tacapa GB’, ‘Melona’ and ‘Meloni’ was planted. While harvest, these melons w ere measured, observed, and documented to obtain the quantity and quality of fruit characters. Data were analyzed and compared each other. The results showed ‘Tacapa GB’ has weight average of 3. 2 kg, brix of 7–9, fruit shape's is oval, fruit color is yellow-green, and rind color is dark green. ‘Melona' has weight average of 0. 8 kg, brix of 7–15, fruit color is orange, having lobes, and sweet. ‘Meloni' has an oval shape, fruit color is pale yellow, the weight of 1. 1 kg, brix of 8–16 and fragrant.