The bHLH gene family and its response to saline stress in Jilin ginseng, Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer.,Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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The bHLH gene family and its response to saline stress in Jilin ginseng, Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer.
Molecular Genetics and Genomics ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s00438-020-01658-w
Lei Zhu ₁ , Mingzhu Zhao _{1,

2} , Mengyao Chen ₁ , Li Li ₁ , Yue Jiang ₁ , Sizhang Liu ₁ , Yang Jiang ₁ , Kangyu Wang _{1,

2} , Yanfang Wang ₃ , Chunyu Sun _{1,

2} , Jing Chen _{1,

2} , Ping Chen _{1,

2} , Jun Lei _{1,

2} , Yingjie Su ₁ , Yi Wang _{1,

2} , Meiping Zhang _{1,

2}

Affiliation

Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) gene family is a gene family of transcription factors that plays essential roles in plant growth and development, secondary metabolism and response to biotic and abiotic stresses. Therefore, a comprehensive knowledge of the bHLH gene family is paramount to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying these processes and develop advanced technologies to manipulate the processes efficiently. Ginseng, Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer, is a well-known medicinal herb; however, little is known about the bHLH genes (PgbHLH) in the species. Here, we identified 137 PgbHLH genes from Jilin ginseng cultivar, Damaya, widely cultivated in Jilin, China, of which 50 are newly identified by pan-genome analysis. These 137 PgbHLH genes were phylogenetically classified into 26 subfamilies, suggesting their sequence diversification. They are alternatively spliced into 366 transcripts in a 4-year-old plant and involved in 11 functional subcategories of the gene ontology, indicating their functional differentiation in ginseng. The expressions of the PgbHLH genes dramatically vary spatio-temporally and across 42 genotypes, but they are still somehow functionally correlated. Moreover, the PgbHLH gene family, at least some of its genes, is shown to have roles in plant response to the abiotic stress of saline. These results provide a new insight into the evolution and functional differentiation of the bHLH gene family in plants, new bHLH genes to the PgbHLH gene family, and saline stress-responsive genes for genetic improvement in ginseng and other plant species.

更新日期：2020-04-22

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