Genome-wide identification of the auxin response factor gene family in Cicer arietinum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Auxin Response Factors act as critical components of the auxin-signaling pathway by regulating the transcription of auxin-responsive genes. The release of the chickpea reference genome provides an opportunity to identify and characterize the ARF gene family in this important legume by a data mining coupled by comparative genomics approaches.

Results

We performed a comprehensive characterization and analysis of 24 ARF genes in the chickpea reference genome. Comparative phylogenetic analysis of the ARF from chickpea, Medicago and Arabidopsis suggests that recent duplications have played a very limited role in the expansion of the ARF chickpea family. Gene structure analysis based on exon-intron organization provides additional evidence to support the evolutionary re

SUBMITTER: Die JV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5921756 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature