국립원예특작과학원 배연구소에서 과실이 크고, 당도가 높은 수분수용 고품질 떫은감 품종을 육성하기 위해 2000년에 ‘서촌조생’에 ‘조홍시’를 교배하였다. 교배실생 중에서 ‘00-16-121’를 2007년에 1차 선발하였고, 연시, 곶감 및 수분수로의 특성이 우수하여 2009년 최종 선발하고 ‘파트너’로 명명하였다. ‘파트너’의 수세는 중간 정도이고 수자는 반개장성이다. 수꽃착생이 많으며 화분량은 100화당 380 mg으로 풍부하다. 숙기는 만개후 144일로 ‘선사환’보다 1주일 빠르며, ‘서촌조생’보다 3주 가량 늦다. 평균과중은 224 g이며, 당도는 18.8°Bx이다(등록번호 제5519호).
In order to select pollinizer varieties of high fruit qualities with large sized and high soluble solid contents, ‘Nishimurawase’ was crossed with ‘Johongsi’ at the Pear Research Institute, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science in 2000. Among these crossed seedlings, ‘00-16-121’ was selected primarily in 2007, and it was finally selected since it was worthy of not only a pollinizer but also ripen and dried persimmon and named ‘Partner’ in 2009. ‘Partner’ shows intermediate in growth habit and semi-spreading tree shape. It has plenty of male flowers and rich pollen amount with about 380 mg per one hundred flowers. The average optimum harvest time of ‘Partner’ was 144 days after full bloom and it matured around one week earlier than ‘Zenzimaru’ and three weeks later than ‘Nishimurawase’. The fruit is elliptic in shape and orange in skin color. Average fruit weight was 224 g, and soluble solids content was 18.8°Brix.