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Study on Isolation of Resistance Gene Analog and Marking Resistance Gene for Downy Mildew by Rga in Cucumber(Cucumis Sativus L.)
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Cucumber downy mildew, which is caused by Pseudoperonospora cubensis Rostow, is one of main diseases in cucumber product. It was firstly discovered in 1868, and had a serious development recently. Methods of control downy mildew included utilizing medicine and closing a greenhouse at high temperature, but were ultimately to produce resistant varieties. So cloning and marking the resistance gene of the downy mildew in cucumber are fundaments for disease resistance breeding of cucumber.The study consisted of three parts: (1) the resistance gene analogs of cucumber were isolated by performing PCR, in which degenerate primers designed according to conservative domain of resistance genes were used; (2) the separate population with resistant and susceptible traits for downy mildew were constructed and used for screening markers on downy mildew resistance gene among the cloned RGAs; (3) the novel RGAs isolated from cucumber were employed for investigation of cucumber germplasm resource and their potential of cluster analysis was tested.Firstly, the genome DNA as template from varieties JINCHUN 4 and 649 were extracted by using SDS method, and twelve degenerate primers were designed based on four substructure motifs, P-loop, kinase2, kinase3a and HD, within NBS conserved domain referring to some reports, and amplifying products, which spanned approximately 270bp, 340bp and 540bp, were obtained by performing PCR and purification technique, which were cloned into pMD18-T vector and transformed E. coli JM109. After blue and white plaque preliminary screening, each seventy-two recombinant clones were randomly picked and their plasmids were prepared and were classed by restriction endonuclease digesting and PAGE method. Sixty clones were sequenced and their homologous sequences were searched on GenBank with Blast. Finally, fifteen clones were distinguished as RGA of cucumber and named CsRGA1~15, which were submitted to GenBank and provided accession numbers as AY555482~AY555495 and AY545993. Among the CsRGAs, the CsRGA5 contains all of four substructure motifs and spans 520bp, and CsRGA2