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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (34): 55-61.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb16080043

Special Issue: 生物技术 园艺

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Genetic Analysis of Leaf Stalk-stem Angle Using Mixture Model of Major Gene Plus Polygene in Cucumis melo L.

Xiong Jiangling, Zhao Guangwei, Xu Zhihong, He Yuhua, Kong Weihu, Zhang Jian, Xu Yongyang   

  1. (Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450009)
  • Received:2016-08-09 Revised:2016-11-21 Accepted:2016-10-11 Online:2016-12-15 Published:2016-12-15

Abstract: Leaf stalk-stem angle is one of important plant architecture traits in melon (Cucumis melo L.). In this study, the genetic characteristic of leaf stalk-stem angle was analyzed to provide theoretical basis for plant type breeding of melon. The varieties B103 (with small leaf stalk-stem angle) and B297 (with big leaf stalk-stem angle) were used as parent lines and the four generation group (P1, P2, F1 and F2) was then constructed. The mixed major gene plus polygene inheritance model was used to analyze the inheritance of leaf stalk-stem angle. The results of two years showed that the leaf stalk-stem angle of melon was a quantitative trait and its inheritance was controlled by a mixed genetic model of two major genes with additive-dominant-epistatic effects plus polygenes with additive-dominant effects (the E-1 model). The heritability of major genes and polygenes for leaf stalk-stem angle were estimated to be 72.28% and 0 respectively in autumn of 2015 and 52.06% and 0 respectively in spring of 2016. The results indicated that the inheritance of the leaf stalk-stem angle in melon accorded with a genetic model of two major genes with additive, dominant and epistatic effects plus polygenes with additive, dominant effects (the E-1 model). This trait was controlled by major genes and was also affected by environment.

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