Author(s)

Pritesh Parmar, Ankit Sudhir, R. Preethi, Bhaumik Dave, Ketankumar Panchal, Ramalingam B. Subramanian, Arvind Patel, K. B. Kathiria

B. R. D. School of Biosciences, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India.
Vegetable research station, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, India.

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.

Fusarium Wilt; Molecular Marker; Tomato

Parmar, P. , Sudhir, A. , Preethi, R. , Dave, B. , Panchal, K. , Subramanian, R. , Patel, A. and Kathiria, K. (2013) Identification of a SSR marker (TOM-144) linked to Fusarium wilt resistance in Solanum lycopersicum. American Journal of Molecular Biology, 3, 241-247. doi: 10.4236/ajmb.2013.34031.