The invention discloses a
target gene, a PCR (
Polymerase Chain Reaction) detection primer, a kit and a PCR identification method for identifying the gender of
populus tomentosa. Aiming at the technical
bottleneck that early phenotypes of male and female plants of
populus tomentosa are difficult to distinguish, a gender-specific
nucleotide sequence linked with characters of
populus tomentosa is obtained by screening through a differential
phenotype grouping strategy by adopting a cluster separation
analysis method, and a specific PCR primer pair is obtained by screening based on the gender-specific sequence; on the basis, a PCR detection method or a detection kit for accurately distinguishing male and female plants is established, large-scale sample
verification shows that the accuracy rate of sex identification of the populus tomentosa reaches 100%, and efficient and accurate sex identification of the populus tomentosa
seedling-stage plants is realized. The detection method disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of high accuracy, simplicity and convenience in operation and high
repeatability, and has application prospects in the aspects of improved variety breeding of populus tomentosa, directional cultivation management,
germplasm resource
library construction, sex-
related gene function research and the like.