Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, Harbin 150040, China
Abstract
NF-YB, a subfamily of Nuclear Factor Y (NF-Y) transcription factor, play crucial role in many biological processes of plant growth and development and abiotic stress responses, and they can therefore be good candidate factors for breeding stress-resistant plants. However, the NF-YB proteins have not yet been explored in Larix kaempferi, a tree species with high economic and ecological values in northeast China and other regions, limiting the breeding of anti-stress L. kaempferi. In order to explore the roles of NF-YB transcription factors in L. kaempferi, we identified 20 LkNF-YB family genes from L. kaempferi full-length transcriptome data and carried out preliminary characterization of them through series of analyses on their phylogenetic relationships, conserved motif structure, subcellular localization prediction, GO annotation, promoter cis-acting elements as well as expression profiles under treatment of phytohormones (ABA, SA, MeJA) and abiotic stresses (salt and drought). The LkNF-YB genes were classified into three clades through phylogenetic analysis and belong to non-LEC1 type NF-YB transcription factors. They have 10 conserved motifs; all genes contain a common motif, and their promoters have various phytohormones and abiotic stress related cis-acting elements. Quantitative real time reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis showed that the sensitivity of the LkNF-YB genes to drought and salt stresses was higher in leaves than roots. The sensitivity of LKNF-YB genes to ABA, MeJA, SA stresses was much lower than that to abiotic stress. Among the LkNF-YBs, LkNF-YB3 showed the strongest responses to drought and ABA treatments. Further protein interaction prediction analysis for LkNF-YB3 revealed that LkNF-YB3 interacts with various factors associated with stress responses and epigenetic regulation as well as NF-YA/NF-YC factors. Taken together, these results unveiled novel L. kaempferi NF-YB family genes and their characteristics, providing the basic knowledge for further in-depth studies on their roles in abiotic stress responses of L. kaempferi.
Funder
Major projects of agricultural biological breeding
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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