A SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM IN THE HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70 CONSTITUTIVE GENE FOR SELECTING HEAT-TOLERANT ORGANISMS

摘要

The present invention relates to the field of selecting heat-resistant, and hence disease-resistant individual organisms out of a pool of organisms. More in particular, the present invention discloses a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the heat shock protein 70 constitutive (HSC70) gene which induces heat-tolerance in an organism and which can thus be used as a genetic marker to select for a disease-resistant organisms.