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Principles and Techniques for Rapid Improvement of Muskmelon for Yield, Fruit Quality and Resistance to Biotic Stresses

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Muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) is a highly polymorphic taxon encompassing a large number of botanical and horticultural varieties or groups exhibiting a wide range of variability in morphological, physiological and biochemical traits that govern their preferences. It shows enormous variation in fruit traits such as size, shape, colour, taste, texture and nutrient composition. Improvement in yield, quality and resistance to biotic stresses is normally achieved by selecting genotypes with desirable character combinations existing in the nature or by hybridization, but it may be a time-consuming approach. Genomic-assisted breeding and plant transformation techniques to introduce new or foreign genes into commercial varieties for improvement of specific traits especially disease resistance and fruit quality traits facilitate rapid improvement. Genetic mapping of QTLs for important horticultural traits including fruit quality has been an important component of the melon breeding programmes. Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies (NGS) facilitated the rapid decrease in cost of sequencing and enabled the cost-effective application of genomics in many crop improvement programmes. Identification of large numbers of SNPs through re-sequencing has made it possible to locate and refine candidate genomic regions for fruit quality traits in melon more efficiently compared to traditional QTL mapping approaches. Many QTLs associated with different fruit quality traits, ripening behaviour and carotene content have been identified, and possible candidate genes responsible for those traits could also been located in the associated genomic regions. Marker-assisted selection has been successfully utilized for introgression of disease resistance genes from other related melon.

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Choudhary, H., Yadav, R.K., Maurya, S.K. (2020). Principles and Techniques for Rapid Improvement of Muskmelon for Yield, Fruit Quality and Resistance to Biotic Stresses. In: Gosal, S., Wani, S. (eds) Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47298-6_14

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