〔1Beijing Vegetable Research Center，Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences，Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops （North China），Ministry of Agriculture，Key Laboratory of Urban Agriculture（North），Ministry of Agriculture，Beijing 100097，China；2College of Landscape and Ecological Engineering，Hebei University of Engineering，Handan 056038，Hebei，China〕
This paper summarized the achievements and new progress made at home and abroad in basic
research related to pumpkin（Cucurbita spp.）breeding，including genome sequence and transcriptome
analysis，genetic map construction and important gene/QTLs mapping，germplasm genetic diversity analysis，
molecule marker-assisted selective breeding，dihaploid breeding，and transgenic breeding etc．The paper also
analyzed the problems existing in basic research related to pumpkin breeding；and put forward countermeasures
and suggestions，so as to provide theoretical and practical references for pumpkin breeding．
