Genome-Wide Identification, Expression Patterns, and Functional Analysis of UDP Glycosyltransferase Family in Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch).

ABSTRACT: Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) is a commercial grown fruit trees, important because of its essential nutrients and flavor promoting secondary metabolites. The glycosylation processes mediated by UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) play an important role in regulating secondary metabolites availability. Identification and characterization of peach UGTs is therefore a research priority. A total of 168 peach UGT genes that distributed unevenly across chromosomes were identified based on their conserved PSPG motifs. Phylogenetic analysis of these genes with plant UGTs clustered them into 16 groups (A-P). Comparison of the patterns of intron-extron and their positions within genes revealed one highly conserved intron insertion event in peach UGTs. Tissue specificity, t

SUBMITTER: Wu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5360731 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature