ABSTRACT
Genetic maps have been continuously developed for cucurbits in the last two decades mostly using molecular markers. Maps are important for all important agricultural crops because of two reasons. Firstly, these maps can be used to track inheritance of traits of interest, be they single-gene
Department of Renewable Resources, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA; e-mail: yxw9887@louisiana.edu
controlled or quantitative. The latter is especially relevant because majority of economically important traits are quantitative. And secondly, they are essential to clone genes for which a phenotypic trait is only known by its map position. For single-gene controlled phenotypic traits, the gene itself or its associated markers can also serve as markers in molecular breeding.
