TITLE:
Identification of a SSR marker (TOM-144) linked to Fusarium wilt resistance in Solanum lycopersicum
AUTHORS:
Pritesh Parmar, Ankit Sudhir, R. Preethi, Bhaumik Dave, Ketankumar Panchal, Ramalingam B. Subramanian, Arvind Patel, K. B. Kathiria
KEYWORDS:
Fusarium Wilt; Molecular Marker; Tomato
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Molecular Biology,
Vol.3 No.4,
October
18,
2013
ABSTRACT: With the discovery of molecular markers and marker assisted selection technology, the research has entered into a new era and has made it possible to develop new and more informative PCR-based markers, including SSR, and to further facilitate the use of markers in tomato breeding. The present study is a step to introduce a new SSR marker (TOM-144) which was deduced after evaluation of eight microsatellite loci amongst the twenty-one different tomato cultivars. The marker selected was inherited and segregated in mendelian fashion as demonstrated in successive generation of a cross between parent cvs. H-24 x GT-2.