NHX Gene Family in : Genome-Wide Identification, Expression Profiles, and Regulatory Network Analysis

Overview

Journal Front Plant Sci

Date 2022 Jan 6

PMID 34987532

Citations 4

Authors

Abhirup Paul

Archita Chatterjee

Shreya Subrahmanya

Guoxin Shen

Neelam Mishra

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Abstract

Salt stress affects the plant growth and productivity worldwide and NHX is one of those genes that are well known to improve salt tolerance in transgenic plants. It is well characterized in several plants, such as and cotton; however, not much is known about NHXs in tea plant. In the present study, NHX genes of tea were obtained through a genome-wide search using as reference genome. Out of the 9 NHX genes in tea, 7 genes were localized in vacuole while the remaining 2 genes were localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER; ) and plasma membrane (PM; ), respectively. Furthermore, phylogenetic relationships along with structural analysis which includes gene structure, location, and protein-conserved motifs and domains were systematically examined and further, predictions were validated by the expression analysis. The dN/dS values show that the majority of tea NHX genes is subjected to strong purifying selection under the course of evolution. Also, functional interaction was carried out in based on the orthologous genes in . The expression profiles linked to various stress treatments revealed wide involvement of NHX genes from tea in response to various abiotic factors. This study provides the targets for further comprehensive identification, functional study, and also contributed for a better understanding of the NHX regulatory network in .

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