Abstract:Inbred line 1507(dark green fruit skin) and inbred line 1508(white fruit skin) were used as the experiment materials for genetic analysis and gene mapping of white fruit skin in cucumber in this study.Genetic analysis showed that a single recessive nuclear gene,w,dominates the white fruit skin trait in cucumber.Bulked segregate analysis (BSA) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) technologies were employed to map w gene in F2 population.w was mapped to a linkage group with 14 SSR markers,corresponding to chromosome 3 of cucumber.The flanking markers SSR23517 and SSR23141 were linked to the w gene with genetic distances of 4.9 and 1.9 cM,respectively.The physical distance between SSR23517 and SSR23141 was 1 150 kb based on the whole genome sequence of cucumber,and there are 500 candidate genes in this region.These results will benefit fine-mapping of w gene and marker-assisted selection (MAS) in fruit skin color cucumber breeding program.