Abstract
CAPS markers have been useful tools for the mapping and marker-assisted breeding of desirable genetic traits in tomato for many years. However, two recent advances have dramatically increased the availability and power of CAPS markers to the tomato breeder. The first is the advent of near-complete genome sequences for tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, and its close wild relative, S. pimpinellifolium, as well as incomplete genome sequences for other wild relatives used as sources of traits for tomato improvement. The second is the identification of a multitude of SNPs not only between tomato and its wild relatives, but also between tomato cultivars. Both of these resources can be mined for SNPs that can be converted readily into CAPS markers. In this chapter, we present our work on mapping and marker-assisted breeding of genes for Fusarium wilt resistance to provide examples of the pre- and post-genomic application of CAPS markers in tomato, ranging from genome-wide surveys and crude-mapping to the finemapping and marker-assisted breeding of specific disease resistance genes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequences (CAPS) Markers in Plant Biology |
| Publisher | Nova Science Publishers, Inc. |
| Pages | 91-108 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781631175541 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781631175534 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2014 |