Identification of WD40 gene family in Prunus mume and its expression level under light illumination

College of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27106v1
Subject Areas
Biotechnology, Genetics, Genomics
Keywords
light intensity, Prunusmume, WD40, expression level
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© 2018 Fanfan et al.
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Fanfan Y, Yougen C, Bingjing L, Defang G, Hua W, Dongliang W. 2018. Identification of WD40 gene family in Prunus mume and its expression level under light illumination. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27106v1

Abstract

The WD40 gene family in Prunusmume was identified by bioinformatics analysis., The evolution and function of WD40 gene family were predicted by phylogenetic analysis, chromosome localization analysis, protein sequence analysis, exon-intron structure analysis. The results showed that the WD40 gene family contained 77 members, which were divided into 61 groups, and only 18 groups had more than one member. When the plum plants were treated with different density of light illumination, the content of anthocyanin in plants was increased with the illumination enhancement, qRT-PCR analyses revealed that the expression of 27 WD40 genes showed the same expression trend. The results of this study can provide useful information for further studying the function of WD40 genes in Prunusmume.

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Supplemental Information

Relative expression

Relative expression of PmWD40 gene family in different illumination

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27106v1/supp-1