Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2023, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (5): 992-1000.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2023.05.03

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Bioinformatics and expression analysis of flowering regulation gene BrFT in Brassica rapa L.

YAO Yanlin1,2(), MA Li2, LIU Lijun2, PU Yuanyuan1,2, LI Xuecai1,2, WANG Wangtian3, FANG Yan1,2, SUN Wancang1,2, WU Junyan1,2,*()   

  1. 1. Rapeseed Engineering Research Center of Gansu Province/College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
    2. Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Lanzhou 730070, China
    3. College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
  • Received:2022-03-10 Online:2023-05-25 Published:2023-06-01

Abstract:

FT gene is an important gene associated with flowering in plants. In order to explore the role of FT gene in regulating flowering in photoperiod pathway of Brassica rapa L. In this study, 3 BrFT genes were identified from the winter rapeseed genome using Arabidopsis FT genes as queries,bioinformatics methods were used to analyze the gene sequence characteristics, and the organ specific expression of the gene was studied by qRT-PCR. Screening genes were cloned from different Brassica rapa L., and the expression patterns of genes under 4 ℃, 16 h light/8 h darkness conditions were detected. The results showed that 3 of which contained 4 exons and 3 introns, and distributed on chromosomes A02 and A07, among which BrFT1 and BrFT2 had obvious collinear relationship, and all the three BrFT proteins contained PEBP conserved motif. The 2 000 bp upstream promoter region of the gene all contained light response elements,some regulatory elements involved in anaerobic induction, defense and stress response,and BrFT1 and BrFT2 contain action elements involved in plant growth and development and hormone induction. qRT-PCR detection showed that BrFT could be expressed in roots, stems, leaves, flower buds and flowers,and the expression level in leaves was higher than that in other organs, the expression level of BrFT1 was higher than that of the other two members. So the BrFT1 gene in Longyou 6, Longyou 17, Tianyou 2 were cloned and the sequence alignment similarity was 99.5%. BrFT1 in Brassica rapa L. showed an up-regulation trend at 4 ℃, 16 h light/8 h darkness, but there were differences among varieties. Combined with the observation of flowering in different types of Brassica rapa L. with different temperature, it showed that excessive expression of BrFT1 gene could promote the early flowering of Brassica rapa L.

Key words: Brassica rapa L., FT gene, bioinformatics analysis, gene clone, expression analysis

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