Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2023, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (7): 1604-1616.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20220960

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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of expansin gene family in corm expansion of Colocasia esculenta

LI Bicong1,2(), LI Huiying1,2, XIAO Yao1,2, LUO Sha1,2, ZHOU Qinghong1,2, HUANG Yingjin1,2, ZHU Qianglong1,2,*()   

  1. 1. College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
    2. Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Root and Tuber Crops Biology, Nanchang 330045, China
  • Received:2022-06-26 Online:2023-07-25 Published:2023-08-17
  • Contact: ZHU Qianglong

Abstract:

Expansin is a group of proteins that can promote cell wall elongation and increase cell wall flexibility. The study identified the expansin gene family at taro whole genome, and analyzed the structural characteristics, phylogeny and expression pattern of the expansin gene family in taro corm expansion. The results showed that the whole taro genome contained 31 expansin genes, which were distributed at 8 chromosomes and 2 contigs. Phylogenetic tree analysis of all expansin genes in taro, Arabidopsis, rice and potato species showed that 31 expansin genes of taro were divided into four subfamilies, of which 23, 5, 1 and 2 expansin genes of taro were in EXPA, EXPB, EXLA and EXLB, respectively. Colinearity analysis showed that there were 7 pairs of colinear expansin genes between taro and Arabidopsis. Gene expression analysis showed that most members of the taro expansin gene family had low gene expression with no significant difference during taro corm expansion, but the five expansin genes (CeEXPA2, CeEXPA11, CeEXPA13, CeEXPA23 and CeEXLA1) had high gene expression with significant difference during taro corm expansion, suggesting that they could play important roles in regulating the corm expansion. The results of our study will help to understand the characteristics of the taro expansin gene family and its molecular function in taro corm expansion, and provide a theoretical basis for revealing the molecular regulation mechanism of taro corm growth and development.

Key words: Colocasia esculenta, expansin gene family, corm expansion

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