Discovery of the Genomic Region and Candidate Genes of the Scarlet Red Flesh Color (Y^scr ) Locus in Watermelon (Citrullus Lanatus L.).

ABSTRACT: The flesh color of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is an important fruit quality trait that helps to determine fruit attractiveness and is potentially beneficial to human health. Previous inheritance analyses determined that a single dominant gene, Y^scr , produces the scarlet red flesh color rather than the coral red flesh color in watermelon. However, no genomic region or gene-based molecular markers for the locus Y^scr have been reported thus far. In the present study, two high-density genetic maps and whole-genome variation detection aided by genome resequencing were first map the flesh color locus Y^scr to a small region on chromosome 6 based on two independent populations derived from two scarlet red-fleshed lines and two coral

SUBMITTER: Li N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7043143 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature