The invention belongs to the technical field of
gene detection and the field of
crop molecular genetic breeding, and particularly relates to a sweet potato
gene copy number detection method and application thereof. Specifically, according to the technology, transgenic sweet potatoes or
arabidopsis thaliana carrying target genes (exogenous genes such as HPT, 35S, IbMYB1-4 and the like which are cloned to expression vectors, namely
external reference genes) are taken as control materials, the control materials and sweet potato cultivated species needing to be analyzed are mixed according to a preset
mass ratio, the target genes HPT of the transgenic materials are taken as the
external reference genes on the basis of detection of the qPCR technology, and the sweet potato cultivated species needing to be analyzed are obtained. Or IbTUA, IbActin and the like in the screened sweet potato
cultivar genome are taken as
reference genes, and the relative copy number of the
target gene in the
genome of a sample to be detected can be quickly obtained by calculating the relative copy number between the
target gene to be detected and the
reference gene, so that data reference is provided for subsequent genetic research.