Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Growth Regulatory Factor Family Genes in Medicago

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第一作者： Du, Wenxuan

作者： Du, Wenxuan;Yi, Dengxia;Pang, Yongzhen;Yang, Junfeng;Li, Qian;Su, Qian

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关键词： Medicago truncatula; Medicago sativa; GRF genes; abiotic stresses; expression profiling

期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES （ 影响因子：6.208； 五年影响因子：6.628 ）

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年卷期： 2022 年 23 卷 13 期

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摘要： Growth Regulatory Factors (GRF) are plant-specific transcription factors that play critical roles in plant growth and development as well as plant tolerance against stress. In this study, a total of 16 GRF genes were identified from the genomes of Medicago truncatula and Medicago sativa. Multiple sequence alignment analysis showed that all these members contain conserved QLQ and WRC domains. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that these GRF proteins could be classified into five clusters. The GRF genes showed similar exon-intron organizations and similar architectures in their conserved motifs. Many stress-related cis-acting elements were found in their promoter region, and most of them were related to drought and defense response. In addition, analyses on microarray and transcriptome data indicated that these GRF genes exhibited distinct expression patterns in various tissues or in response to drought and salt treatments. In particular, qPCR results showed that the expression levels of gene pairs MtGRF2-MsGRF2 and MtGRF6-MsGRF6 were significantly increased under NaCl and mannitol treatments, indicating that they are most likely involved in salt and drought stress tolerance. Collectively, our study is valuable for further investigation on the function of GRF genes in Medicago and for the exploration of GRF genes in the molecular breeding of highly resistant M. sativa.

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