Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (S1): 8-18. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193363

Special Issue: Biotechnology

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Identification and Expression Analysis of NRT2 Gene Family of Chenopodium quinoa

YANG Liyan1, GAO Yuan1, ZHU Manxi1, DENG Yan2, WANG Chuangyun2   

  1. 1 School of Life Science,Shanxi Normal University,Taiyuan 030031,China
    2 College of Agriculture,Shanxi Agricultural University,Taiyuan 030031,China
  • Received:2022-05-14 Published:2022-12-28

Abstract:

Nitrate nitrogen is one of the two main form of nitrogen uptaken by plants.Nitrate transporter 2(NRT2)plays a leading role in nitrogen uptake under nitrate deficiency conditions.In order to explore characteristics and expression pattern of NRT2 gene in Chenopodium quinoa,in the present study,fifteen members of C.quinoa NRT2s were identified based on bioinformatics analysis,and their encoding protein,chromosome location,gene structure,systematic evolution,promoter elements,tissue expression specificity and expression profile under different nitrogen levels were analyzed.The results showed that 15 NRT2s of C.quinoa were distributed on 7 chromosomes,each member contained 1-9 introns and 2-10 exons,respectively.These C.quinoa NRT2 proteins were predicted to be located on plasma membrane and belong to hydrophobic proteins.The evolutionary analysis found that the NRT2 protein family of quinoa belonged to two subfamilies,and they showed closer relationship to Arabidopsis thaliana.The cis-acting element analysis exhibited that the promoter regions of NRT2 had elements related to growth and stress responses.NRT2s showed varied expression profile in different C.quinoa tissues where more CqNRT2 members were higher expressed in roots,stems and leaves than those in other organs.The expression of CqNRT2.4,CqNRT2.7 and CqNRT2.15 was up-regulated under low nitrogen conditions where the expression levels of CqNRT2.7 and CqNRT2.15 were up-regulated sharply with 0 and 25% nitrogen treatment.The study might provide a reference basis for subsequent cloning,functional and nitrogen stress analysis of CqNRT2s gene.

Key words: Chenopodium quinoa, Nitrate, Nitrate transporter 2, Gene family, Nitrogen stress

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YANG Liyan, GAO Yuan, ZHU Manxi, DENG Yan, WANG Chuangyun. Identification and Expression Analysis of NRT2 Gene Family of Chenopodium quinoa[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2022, 37(S1): 8-18. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193363.

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