Patent ID: 8993855
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: A01H

Abstract:
1. A cultivated Capsicum annuum plant which is intermediately resistant to thrips infestation, wherein said resistance can be assessed in a standard resistance assay, wherein said plant comprises a first QTL contributing to said intermediate resistance to thrips infestation, wherein said first QTL is located on chromosome 3 and said first QTL is obtained from a plant of line 061 M4387, representative seed of which is deposited under Accession No. NCIMB 41428, or from a progeny or an ancestor thereof comprising said QTL, wherein said first QTL is genetically linked to at least one marker locus co-segregating with said intermediate resistance to thrips infestation, wherein said at least one marker locus can be identified by a pair of PCR oligonucleotide primers selected from the group consisting of primer pair 1 represented by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 1 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO: 2, identifying marker locus 1; primer pair 2 represented by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 3 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO: 4, identifying marker locus 2; primer pair 3 represented by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 5 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO: 6, identifying marker locus 3; primer pair 4 represented by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 7 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO: 8, identifying marker locus 4; primer pair 5 represented by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 9 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO: 10, identifying marker locus 5; and primer pair 6 represented by a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 11 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO: 12, identifying marker locus 6.