Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2015, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (1): 112-119.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2015.01.11

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QTL Mapping for Parthenocarpy in Cucumber

WU Zhe1,2, LI Lei1, ZHANG Ting1, ZHANG Ting-lin1, LI Ji1, LOU Qun-feng1,CHEN Jin-feng1   

  1. 1College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University/State Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing 210095
    2College of Horticulture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, Shanxi
  • Received:2014-07-03 Online:2015-01-01 Published:2015-01-01

Abstract: 【Objective】Cucumber is one of the ten vegetables in the world and parhenocarpy is an important trait closely related to production and quality of cucumber. To explore the inheritance and QTL mapping for parthenocarpy in cucumber could provide a preliminary basis for further study on mechanism of parthenocarpy and molecular assistant selection breeding, and lay a theoretical foundation for breeding of parthenocarpy.【Method】In this study, The authers clipped eight female flowers on main stem and branches, respectively, for every individual plant and investigated parthenocarpic fruit once when all plants treament finished 8-10 days later to calculate the parthenocarpy percentage (numbers of parthenocarpis fruit/numbers of clipped female flower) in order to evaluate parthenocarpy ability. Two F2 progenies derived from two crosses between EC1, a gynoecious parthenocarpic line, and two monoecious non-parthenocarpic lines 8419 and 14519 were constructed to determine the inheritance of parthenocarpy in cucumber. A linkage map from part of F2 plants from the cross of EC1×8419 was constructed with JoinMap4.0 software by screening 1 335 SSR from 9930 and gy14 cucumber genome sequencing and 143 Indel primers from two parents resequencing and QTL detection for parthenocarpy was conducted with WinQTLcart2.5 software using F2:3 families from the same cross. The candidate genes in major QTL region were predicted using bioinformatic analysis method.【Result】Parthenocarpy in EC1 was inherited quantitatively but segregated towards different parents in two F2 progenies. A linkage map containing 7 chromosomes, 116 SSR and 9 Indel markers was constructed, which total length was 802.9 cM and average distance between two markers was 6.3 cM. QTL analysis identified 7 QTLs, Parth1, Parth2-1, Parth2-2, Parth3-1, Parth3-2, Parth5, and Parth7,distributing on chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. The major QTL Parth2-1 locating between SSR00684-SSR22083 was the only locus detected in two seasons, having two LOD scores of 9.0, 6.2 and R2 of 17.4%, 10.2%, respectively, and its genetic and physical distance was 17.1 cM and 2.9 Mb. There were 307 genes in this region and two gene among them, Csa2M035330.1 and Csa2M070880.1, involved in plant hormone signal transduction would be candidate genes closely related to parthenocarpy, the rest were minor QTLs.【Conclusion】The inheritance of pathenocarpy was quantitative. The QTL Parth2-1 locating on chromosome 2 was the major QTL controlling parthenocarpy in cucumber and two genes in plant hormone pathway would be candidate genes. The results in this study would lay a foundation for fine mapping and gene cloning of major QTL of parthenocarpy in cucumber and for use in MAS breeding.

Key words: cucumber, parthenocarpy, linkage map, QTL

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