Kimchi cabbage (known as Chinese cabbage) is major vegetable in Korea. An inbred line of ‘Wonkyo20038ho’, was developed by the National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA in Republic of Korea. The microspore culture was carried out using ‘Chunhuigohangwang’ which was introduced from China in 2002. Among 3 DH inbred lines, ‘Wonkyo20038ho’ inbred line was finally selected after field exhibition in 2009. The horticultural traits of ‘Wonkyo20038ho’ inbred line; half-open head, white inner leaf colour, and dark green outer leaf colour. The average (for four years) head weight was 2025.3g, and head width and height were 15.8cm and 32.4cm, respectively. Head shape was narrow elliptic and degree of overlapping leaf was medium. Numbers of outer and internal leaves were 14.1 and 49.8, respectively. Harvest maturity was mid-late maturing type and average of seed yield for five years was 926 seeds. In addition, ‘Wonkyo20038ho’ inbred line is suitable for salad in that it possessed few trichome and narrow elliptic head shape.

• 장하영(국립원예특작과학원 채소과) | Ha-Young Jang (Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science)
• 박민영(국립원예특작과학원 채소과) | Min Young Park (Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science)
• 장석우(국립원예특작과학원 채소과) | Suck-Woo Jang (Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science)
• 윤무경(국립원예특작과학원 채소과) | Moo-Kyoung Yoon (Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science)
• 이정수(국립원예특작과학원 저장유통연구팀) | Jung-Soo Lee (Postharvest Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science)
• 박수형(국립원예특작과학원 채소과) | Suhyoung Park (Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science) Corresponding author