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Cloning and molecular characterization of Myb transcription factors from Leymus (Poaceae: Trticeae)

  • Ying-xia Lei , Yan Zhang , Yang-yi Li , Jian-Jun Lai , Gang Gao , Hai-qin Zhang , Yong-hong Zhou and Rui-wu Yang EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: November 23, 2016
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Abstract

Plant Myb transcription factors are crucial in regulating secondary metabolism, cellular morphogenesis and responses to hormone and stress signals. In this study, 19 Myb gene fragments were isolated from five Leymus species, three of which, LrMyb3, LmMyb8 and LmMyb6 were nearly complete open reading frames encoding putative Leymus Myb genes. Sequence and phylogenetic analysis indicated that all these putative Myb from Leymus represent plant typical R2R3-Myb genes. Compared with Myb gene in Arabidopsis thaliana, the 19 Leymus Myb gene fragments of the R2R3 region amino acid showed three different types, W-x (19) W-x (19) W-x (12) F-x (18) W-x (18) W, W-x (19) W-x (19) W-x (12) M-x (18) W-x (18) W and W-x (19) W-x (19) R-x (12) L-x (18) W-x (18) W. LmMyb8 gene shares high similarity to ZmMyb39 which was possible involvement of caffeic acid O-methyl-transferase (COMT) in the lignification process. TheLmMyb8 gene is expressed at high level in leaves and roots while at low level in stems.

Acknowledgements

The authors are very grateful to the American National Plant Germplasm System for kindly providing some of seeds in this study. We are thankful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31470305, 31270243) and the Science and Technology Bureau and Education Bureau of Sichuan Province, China for their financial support.

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Received: 2016-3-21
Accepted: 2016-9-19
Published Online: 2016-11-23
Published in Print: 2016-10-1

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