Melon is a popular fruit vegetable crop worldwide with diverse morphological variation. We report a high-density genetic map of melon and nine major QTLs with physical region ranging from 43.47 kb to 1.89 Mb. Importantly, two seed-related trait QTLs were repeatedly detected in two environments, and the mapping region was narrowed to 522 kb according to a regional linkage analysis. A total of 40 annotated genes were screened for nonsynonymous variations, of which EVM0009818, involved in cytokinin-activated signaling, was differentially expressed in the young fruits of parents based on RNA-seq. Selective sweep analysis identified 152 sweep signals for seed size, including the two seed-related QTLs and nine homologs that have been verified to regulate seed size in Arabidopsis or rice. This work illustrates the power of a joint analysis combining resequencing-based genetic map for QTL mapping and a combination of KASP genotyping and RNA-seq analysis to facilitate QTL fine mapping.

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