Figure 1.

Fruit skin color phenotype of ‘Mantianhong’, ‘Hongxiangsu’ and the extreme phenotypes in the pooled red and green skinned individuals. Note: Both the female parent ‘Mantianhong’ and the male parent ‘Hongxiangsu’ of the population are with red skinned phenotypes. The majority of fruits of plants selected for the red pool exhibited a red blush over 50% of their fruit surface. All fruits of plants selected to represent the extreme phenotype of the green pool were obviously green to yellow and with no red blush apparent on their fruit surface.