Abstract: F₁ and F₂ populations, derived from the cross between bacterialwilt highly susceptible cultivar ‘Sanyueqie’and highly resistant Indonesian cultivar‘S69’, were used for investigation of the inheritance of resistance to bacteria wilt and for identification of associated AFLP markers in eggplant. The results showed that the resistance to bacterialwiltwas incompletely recessive, otherwise susceptibilitywas incomp letely dominant, which was controlled by 1 - 2 genes. By using a combination of the amp lified fragment length polymor2
phism (AFLP) technique and bulked segregant analysis (BSA) , an AFLP marker, named 39A980 was identified with the p rimer combination E-ACC /M-CTG to be linked to the major resistant gene. The crossing-over value and the genetic distance between the resistant gene and‘39A980 ’were estimated as 4.65% and 4.9 cM respectively by analyzing a set of 86 F₂ plants.

Key words: Solanum melongena, Bacterial wilt, Inheritance of resistance, AFLP markers