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FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00178
Keywords
SLAF sequencing; SNP markers; eggplant; genetic linkage map; QTL analysis
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- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ18C150004]
- Major Science and Technology Projects of Zhejiang [2016C02051-2-1]
- Youth Program of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences [2019R23R08E03]
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Eggplant (Solanum melongena; 2n = 24) is an economically important fruit crop of the family Solanaceae that was domesticated in India and Southeast Asia. Construction of a high-resolution genetic map and map-based gene mining in eggplant have lagged behind other crops within the family such as tomato and potato. In this study, we conducted high-throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in the eggplant genome using specific length amplified fragment (SLAF) sequencing and constructed a high-density genetic map for the quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of multiple traits. An interspecific F-2 population of 121 individuals was developed from the cross between cultivated eggplant 1836 and the wild relative S. linnaeanum 1809. Genomic DNA extracted from parental lines and the F-2 population was subjected to high-throughput SLAF sequencing. A total of 111.74 Gb of data and 487.53 million pair-end reads were generated. A high-resolution genetic map containing 2,122 SNP markers and 12 linkage groups was developed for eggplant, which spanned 1530.75 cM, with an average distance of 0.72 cM between adjacent markers. A total of 19 QTLs were detected for stem height and fruit and leaf morphology traits of eggplant, explaining 4.08-55.23% of the phenotypic variance. These QTLs were distributed on nine linkage groups (LGs), but not on LG2, 4, and 9. The number of SNPs ranged from 2 to 11 within each QTL, and the genetic interval varied from 0.15 to 10.53 cM. Overall, the results establish a foundation for the fine mapping of complex QTLs, candidate gene identification, and marker-assisted selection of favorable alleles in eggplant breeding.
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