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Acta Agron Sin ›› 2015, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (06): 900-909.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1006.2015.00900

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Identification and Analysis of WRKY Transcription Factors in Triticum urartu

MA Jian-Hui,ZHANG Dai-Jing,GAO Xiao-Long,SHAO Yun,JIANG Li-Na*   

  1. College of Life Sciences, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China
  • Received:2014-11-03 Revised:2015-04-02 Online:2015-06-12 Published:2015-04-14
  • Contact: 姜丽娜, E-mail: jianglina73@aliyun.com E-mail:cricaas@163.com

Abstract:

WRKY transcription factors have been found to be involved in the processes responding to various abiotic and biotic stresses in plants. The knowledge on WRKY transcription factors in Triticum urartu (AA) will facilitate the function study of WRKY transcription factors in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD). In this study, 62 WRKY transcription factors with full length of coding sequence (CDS) were selected from Triticum urartu genome through bioinformatic analyses, in which 14 could be located on specific chromosomes and two pairs had been duplicated. These WRKY transcription factors were divided into eight subgroups by phylogenetic analysis and the exon–intron structure in individual subgroups was relatively conserved. Two WRKY transcription factors were selected for function validation, and their expressions consistently increased under diverse abiotic stresses by qRT-PCR assay.

Key words: Triticum urartu, WRKY transcription factor, Evolution analysis, Abiotic stress

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