Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (9): 1816-1829.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2025.09.011

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Genetic and Interaction Analysis of High Soluble Solid Content Loci in Processing Tomato

ZHANG Min1(), LI Xin1, ZHANG Yong2, ZHONG DePing1, LU XiaoXiao1, HE ShuMin1, CHEN DongHong3, LI Ye2, LI RongXia4, HUANG ZeJun1, WANG XiaoXuan1, GUO YanMei1, DU YongChen1, LIU HongHai2(), LI JunMing1(), LIU Lei1()   

  1. 1 Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Beijing 100081
    2 Chalks Health Industry Co., Ltd, Urumqi 830000
    3 Bazhou Wuliang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd, Yanqi 841100, Xinjiang
    4 Institute of Agricultural Science, the Sixth Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Wujiaqu 831301, Xinjiang
  • Received:2024-12-09 Accepted:2025-01-22 Online:2025-05-01 Published:2025-05-08
  • Contact: LIU HongHai, LI JunMing, LIU Lei

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【Objective】 This study aimed to explore the genetic effects and the interaction effects by utilizing the introgression lines with high soluble solid content sites, which could provide material and theoretical basis for genetic improvement of high-quality, gene pyramiding, and hybrid vigor prediction of tomatoes. 【Method】 Nine introgression lines (ILs) comprising high-SSC loci of S. pennellii LA0716 (IL1-4, IL2-6, IL4-4, IL5-4-5-44, IL7-3, IL7-5-5, IL8-3, IL9-2-5) and S. habrochaites LA1777 (LA3914) were selected to analyze the effects of genetic, intra-specific, and inter-specific interactions of soluble solids content, fruit weight, and plant yield. 【Result】 As the genetic effects, the high soluble solids loci contained in IL7-3 exhibit dominant effect, while the linkage drag of yield reducing show dominant effect. The high soluble solids loci in IL 9-2-5 exhibit dominant effect also, with the fruit weight and yield do not reduce. The yield increase loci in IL1-4 were over-dominant. The linkage drag loci responsible for reducing fruit weight in IL2-6 were dominant. In the interaction, some ILs or loci that can affect SSC and yield were selected. Such as, IL7-3 and IL9-2-5 have good epistatic and additive effects, both of which can significantly increase SSC in double hybrids, but the yield of double hybrids which contained IL7-3 was also reduced. IL2-6 can reduce the fruit weight of its interaction combination significantly. The yield of double hybrids which has IL5-4-5-44 or IL7-5-5 get increased. The alleles of IL1-4 and LA3914 both have better dominant or super-dominant effects on plant yield and horticultural yield. Our results showed that, the correlation between horticultural yield and plant yield was found to be high (with a correlation coefficient of 0.916). Thus, increasing SSC as part of genetic improvement must be performed under the premise of ensuring high yield.【Conclusion】 The total soluble solid content and horticultural yield could be improved effectively through pyramiding high soluble solids loci. In order to improve their interaction effects more effectively, the interaction of high soluble solids loci which has synergism in genetics and physiology could be better. Therefore, selecting suitable high solid content sites for multigene polymerization breeding is an effective way to improve the soluble solid content and yield of tomatoes.

Key words: tomato, soluble solid, introgression lines, genetic effects, interaction effects

Fig. 1

The Boxplot of SSC, fruit weight, and yield per plant with different years and different trials The dots beyond the whiskers represent outliers"

Fig. 2

The genetic effects analysis of high SSC ILs of S. pennellii LA0716 A, B, C, D represent the SSC, plant yield, fruit weight, and horticultural yield value of combinations than M82 and IL. *: Significance at the 0.05 level; **: Significance at the 0.01 level"

Fig. 3

The interaction effects analysis of SSC between high SSC ILs of S. pennellii LA0716"

Fig. 4

The interaction effects analysis of plant yield between high SSC ILs of S. pennellii LA0716"

Fig. 5

The interaction effects analysis of fruit weight between high SSC ILs of S. pennellii LA0716"

Fig. 6

The interaction effects analysis of horticultural yield between high SSC ILs of S. pennellii LA0716"

Fig. 7

The interspecific interaction effects analysis of SSC of high SSC loci in LA0716 and LA1777 ILs"

Fig. 8

The interaction effects analysis of plant yield of high SSC loci in LA0716 and LA1777 ILs"

Fig. 9

The interaction effects analysis of fruit weight of high SSC loci in LA0716 and LA1777 ILs"

Fig. 10

The interaction effects analysis of horticultural yield of high SSC loci in LA0716 and LA1777 ILs"

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