Researchers at the Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences discover the genetic mechanism of three important agronomic traits of watermelon China Recently, the watermelon and melon cultivation and physiology team of Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of CAAS has made progress in localizing important agronomic traits in watermelon. The important functional genes of watermelon skin color, seed coat color, and internode length were studied and analyzed, the genetic and molecular mechanisms were elucidated, and related molecular markers were developed. These results provided a theoretical basis for watermelon molecular breeding, which could improve watermelon breeding in China. The related research results were published in the journals of Theoretical and Applied GeneticsăFrontiers in Plant Science, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
These researches were funded by the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program(CAAS-ASTIP-2016-ZFRI-07), National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFD0100704), the China Agriculture Research System (CARS-25-03), and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31672178 and 31471893). More details are available at the links below: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2019.01689/full https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00122-019-03384-3 http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/1/290
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