Abstract:

In order to preliminarily identify the function of HvMUTE, a transcription factor gene for stomatal development in barley, and by analyzing its biological characteristics and expression patterns, HvMUTE, a transcription factor gene for stomatal development in barley, was studied by bioinformatics analysis, PCR amplification and qRT-PCR. Because barley G1614 is the sister line of barley MOREX, and the reference genome data of barley MOREX has been published. So HvMUTE gene sequence was obtained by homology Blast of BdMUTE against between the referencre genome of barely G1614. The coding region of the HvMUTE gene with 651 bp in length was isolated from the first leaf emerging from the bud of barley G1614. Bioinformatics analysis indicated that HvMUTE protein was an unstable protein with no obvious hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity, located in the nucleus, and hold a Helix-Loop-Helix (HLH) structure in three demision level. Phylogenetic tree analysis showed that HvMUTE was closely related to MUTEs of wheat and Aegilops. qRT-PCR results showed that there was no significant change in the expression of HvMUTE gene under drought conditions. This result was different from previous studies, and it was speculated that barley was a monocotyledonous plant, and the existence of parathyroid cells in the stomatal structure was different from that of dicotyledonous plants.

Key words: Barley, Stomatal development, Transcription factor, HvMUTE, Gene cloning