Assessment of genetic diversity of cucumber cultivars in China based on simple sequence repeats and fruit traits
, “Assessment of genetic diversity of cucumber cultivars in China based on simple sequence repeats and fruit traits”, vol. 14, pp. 19028-19039, 2015.
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an important crop grown worldwide. In this study, the genetic diversity of 42 cucumber cultivars in China was analyzed using 51 pairs of simple sequence repeat (SSR) primers. These primers identified 129 polymorphic loci, 95.6% of which were polymorphic. The mean effective number of alleles, mean Nei’s gene diversity, and mean Shannon’s information index were 0.36, 0.16, and 0.21, respectively.
