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Genetics and Genomics of Cucurbitaceae pp 321–344Cite as

Genomic Analysis of Cucurbit Fruit Growth

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Part of the book series: Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models ((PGG,volume 20))

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Fruit development in cucurbit species follows the canonical progression of ovary development, fruit set, expansive fruit growth, and maturation and ripening. This commonality, however, belies tremendous morphological diversity. Variation in timing, amount, and orientation of cell division and cell expansion pre- and post-anthesis, as well as factors influencing carpel number, floral sex, photosynthetic capacity and trichome development all drive extreme variability in fruit size and shape. New genomic approaches utilizing recently assembled draft genomes for the four major cucurbit crop species (Cucumis sativus, Cucumis melo, Citrullus lanatus, Cucurbita spp), next generation high throughput sequencing, molecular mapping methods, transcriptomic analyses, gene cloning, and transgenic approaches are all contributing to an increased understanding of the key processes underlying cucurbit fruit development. Extensive quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses have identified numerous QTL for features such as ovary length, width, and shape, and fruit length, width, shape, flesh thickness and cavity diameter. Most recently, multi-pronged approaches combining mapping, sequence, and transcriptional analyses have allowed for identification specific candidate genes influencing cucurbit fruit morphology.

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Grumet, R., Colle, M. (2016). Genomic Analysis of Cucurbit Fruit Growth. In: Grumet, R., Katzir, N., Garcia-Mas, J. (eds) Genetics and Genomics of Cucurbitaceae. Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/7397_2016_4

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