[Objective]Molecular markers closely linked to powdery mildew resistant genes in bitter melon (Momordica charantia L.) were obtained to provide basis on accelerating the development of new powdery mildew resistant cultivars.[Method]The plants from F2 generations were created through the hybridization of highly powdery mildew-sensitive and cultivated bitter melon MC1-2 as female parent with strongly powdery mildew-resistant and wild bitter melon MC18 as male parent.After identification powdery mildew resistance abilities with their parents,the near-isogenic DNA pools from F2 population plants were classified on the basis of bulked segregation analysis (BSA) method.Polymorphic amplified fragments were screened from near-isogenic DNA pools by sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) technique.The differential fragments only belonging to powdery mildew-resistant near-isogenic pool and paternal plant were retrieved,sequenced,blasted,and changed into SCAR marker.The correlations of sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) molecular marker with powdery mildew-resistant abilities were analyzed based on DNA of the known disease-resistant or-sensitive plants.[Result]Five pairs of SRAP primers in 1188 had stable and positive differential fragments,of which ME20EM5 primer combination not only got a differential fragment with 332 bp sharing comparatively high similarity with gene encoded grape antibody protein (disease-resistant gene),but also changed into 320 bp SCAR molecular marker significantly correlated with powdery mildew resistance.[Conclusion]SCAR molecular marker screened could be used to develop powdery mildew-resistant bitter melon using marker-assisted selection.