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| Author(s): |
Ana Paula Matoso Teixeira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2004-09-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo;
Romulo Fujito Kobori;
Jorge Alberto Marques Rezende
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| Advisor: | Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo |
| Abstract | |
The growing importance of melon in Brazil is due to the increased production, especially in the Northern region, where crops are established in small properties. Several diseases affect melons. Among the viruses, the mosaic, caused by Papaya ringspot virus - type watermelon (PRSV-W) is the most important. The use of resistant cultivars is a practical and effective method of disease control. The objective of this work was to identify AFLP markers linked to the Prv1 gene that confers resistance to PRSV-W, that in the future could be used in marker assisted selection. Two near isogenic lines (LQI-R and LQI-S) of the Amarelo CAC type that differ with respect to the presence of Prv1 and one Charentais type line donor of the resistance gene were analyzed. The resistant LQI was obtained through the crossing between the donor line (LRD) and the recurrent line (LQI-S), followed by five backcrosses between resistant plants and the recurrent line. The percentage of recurrent parental genome recovered in the LQI-R was approximately 98.44%. Polymorphisms between resistant and susceptible lines were considered as candidate markers linked to the Prv1 resistance gene. An RC1F1 population obtained from a cross between the LQIs lines and screened for resistance to PRSV-W was used in co-segregation analyses. The distance between markers and resistance gene was calculated using the Kosambi equation for recombination fractions higher than 1%. For lower values, the percentage of recombinants was considered equal to the distance in centiMorgans. The AFLP technique combined with the use of nearisogenic lines seemed to be efficient in detecting molecular markers in melon. DNA digestion was performed with three combinations of different enzymes (EcoRI/MseI, HindIII/MseI and PstI/MseI), and electrophoretic profiles of fragments obtained from 474 combinations of different primers were evaluated. Approximately 28,700 fragments were analyzed. Genetic diversity was estimated as 8.6% (2,462 polymorphic fragments) between near-isogenic lines and the donor Charentais line. Only three fragments were found to be polymorphic and linked to the resistance gene. The markers EA270 and HF155 are linked to each other and located 40.9 cM of the Prv1 gene. The fragment EK190 is linked to the same gene with a distance of 0.526 cM. Because EK190 fragment is very close to the resistance gene, it is a suitable marker to be used in marker-assisted selection aiming to develop melon cultivars resistant to PRSV-W. (AU) | |