Molecular confirmation of varietal status in bottle gourd () using genotyping-by-sequencing.

Bottle gourd () is an important food, medicinal, and utilitarian crop with a large pan-tropical distribution. Two morphologically different types in the subspecies are sufficiently different to be considered as varieties, but they are assigned into different taxonomic ranks. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) of 95 different accessions from the Nangui Abrogoua University collection was used to confirm the varietal status in bottle gourd.