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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (35): 37-41.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb20191200970

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An InDel-spot Molecular Marker for the Spotted Trait in Melon: Development and Application

Xie Meiting1(), Liu Li2, Hua Deping1()   

  1. 1School of Life Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072
    2School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072
  • Received:2019-12-02 Revised:2020-02-05 Online:2020-12-15 Published:2020-12-18
  • Contact: Hua Deping E-mail:17302201831@163.com;huadp2016@163.com

Abstract:

The purpose is to improve the selecting efficiency of breeding materials with the spotted and the non-spotted trait in melons. The authors conducted the research with the spotted and non-spotted melons provided in field, and developed the linked InDel-spot molecular marker near the gene controlling the melon spotted trait in chromosome 2. Twenty melons were genotyped with the InDel-spot maker. The results showed that the size of spotted band was about 211 bp, while the non-spotted band was about 219 bp, with 95% of compliance rate. The InDel-spot marker was further used to identify the spotted and non-spotted trait of 2 (F2) and 5 (F3) populations. Among them, the detection accuracy of Qb978 (F2), Qb931 (F3) and Qb932 (F3) was 96.6%, 91.7% and 83.3%, respectively. The results indicate that InDel-spot marker has a great application value in the identification of the spotted and non-spotted trait, which could raise the selecting efficiency of breeding materials and shorten the breeding cycle.

Key words: melon, spotted trait, non-spotted trait, InDel-spot molecular marker, breeding cycle

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