Identification and expression analysis of the <i>YABBY</i> gene family in strawberry.

Tingting YU; Shurong SHEN; Yiling XU; Xinyu WANG; Yao YU; Bojun MA; Xifeng CHEN

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Identification and expression analysis of the YABBY gene family in strawberry.

Author: Tingting YU ¹ ; Shurong SHEN ¹ ; Yiling XU ¹ ; Xinyu WANG ¹ ; Yao YU ¹ ; Bojun MA ¹ ; Xifeng CHEN ¹
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1. College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, Zhejiang, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: YABBY gene family; expression pattern; sequence analysis; strawberry; subcellular localization
MeSH: Fragaria/genetics*; Arabidopsis; Biological Assay; Cold Temperature; Computational Biology
From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2024;40(1):104-121
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: YABBY proteins are important transcription factors that regulate morphogenesis and organ development in plants. In order to study the YABBY of strawberry, bioinformatic technique were used to identify the YABBY gene families in Fragaria vesca (diploid) and Fragaria×ananassa (octoploid), and then analyze the sequence characters, phylogeny and collinearity of the family members. The RNA-seq data and the quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) technique were used to assay the expression patterns of the family members. A green fluorescent protein (GFP) was fused with FvYABBYs and transiently expressed in tobacco leaf cells for the subcellular localization. As the results, six FvYABBY genes and 26 FxaYABBY genes were identified from F. vesca and F.×ananassa, respectively. The FvYABBY genes were grouped into five clades, and five family members were orthologous with AtYABBY genes of Arabidopsis. In F. vesca, all of the FvYABBYs were basically not expressed not expressed in root and receptacle, while FvYABBY1, FvYABBY2, FvYABBY5 and FvYABBY6 were highly expressed in leaf, shoot, flower and achene. In F.×ananassa, FxaYABBY1, FxaYABBY2, FxaYABBY5 and FxaYABBY6 were expressed in achene, and all FxaYABBY were poorly or not expressed in receptacle. Additionally, under the abiotic stresses of low temperature, high salt and drought, the expression of FvYABBY1, FvYABBY3, FvYABBY4 and FvYABBY6 were down-regulated, FvYABBY5 was up-regulated, and FvYABBY2 was up-regulated and then down-regulated. In tobacco leaf cells, the subcellular localization of FvYABBY proteins were in the nucleus. These results provides a foundation for the functional researches of YABBY gene in strawberry.