Isolation and sequence analysis of DREB2A homologues in three cereal and two legume species

Nayak, S.N. and Jayashree, B. and Upadhyaya, H.D. and Hash, C.T. and Kishor, P.B.K. and Chattopadhyay, D. and Rodriquez, L.M. and Blair, M.W. and Baume, M. and McNally, K. and This, D. and Hoisington, D.A. and Varshney, R.K. (2009) Isolation and sequence analysis of DREB2A homologues in three cereal and two legume species. Plant Science, 177 (5). pp. 460-467.

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Abstract

The transcription factor, DREB2A, is one of the promising candidate genes involved in dehydration tolerance in crop plants. In order to isolate DREB2A homologues across cereals (rice, barley and sorghum) and legumes (common bean and chickpea), specific or degenerate primers were used. Gene/phylogenetic trees were constructed using a non-redundant set of 19 DREB1A and 27 DREB2A amino acid sequences and were combined with taxonomic/species tree to prepare reconciled phylogenetic trees. In total, 86 degenerate primers were designed for different clades and 295 degenerate primer combinations were used to amplify DREB homologues in targeted crop species. uccessful amplification of DREB2A was obtained in case of sorghum.In parallel, gene-specific primerswere used to amplify DREB2A homologues inrice, barley,common bean and chickpea. Seven to eight diverse genotypes from targeted species were used for sequence analysis at DREB2A locus identified/isolated. A maximum of eight SNPs were found in the commonbean DREB2A, indicating two distinct haplotypes, three SNPs with five haplotypes were observed in barley whereas a single SNP was observed in rice, sorghumand chickpea. Parsimony based phylogenetic tree revealed distinct clustering of cereals and legumes. Furthermore, alignment of corresponding amino acid sequences showed conservation of AP2 domain across the targeted species

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502324, AP, India
Subjects: Crop Improvement
Divisions: Sorghum
Depositing User: Syamala
Date Deposited: 02 Feb 2011 22:10
Last Modified: 02 Feb 2011 22:10
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2009.07.009
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/1454

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