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作者： Liang, Jianxiang ¹ ; Hou, Zhimin ² ; Liao, Jingyi ² ; Qin, Yuan ² ; Wang, Lulu ² ; Wang, Xiaomei ⁵ ; Su, Weiqiang ⁵ ; Cai, Zhaoyan ⁵ ; Fang, Yunying ⁶ ; Aslam, Mohammad ² ; Cheng, Yan ² ; Zheng, Ping ² ;

作者机构： 1.Fujian Agr & Forestry Univ, Coll Forestry, Basic Forestry & Prote Ctr BFPC, Fujian Prov Key Lab Haixia Appl Plant Syst Biol, Fuzhou 350002, Peoples R China

2.Fujian Agr & Forestry Univ, Coll Life Sci, Ctr Genom & Biotechnol, Fujian Prov Key Lab Haixia Appl Plant Syst Biol, Fuzhou 350002, Peoples R China

3.Fujian Agr & Forestry Univ, Coll Plant Protect, State Key Lab Ecol Pest Control Fujian & Taiwan C, Fuzhou 350002, Peoples R China

4.Guangxi Univ, Coll Agr, Guangxi Key Lab Sugarcane Biol, Nanning 530004, Peoples R China

5.Guangxi Acad Agr Sci, Hort Res Inst, Minist Agr, Nanning Invest Stn South Subtrop Fruit Trees, Nanning 530004, Peoples R China

6.Fujian Agr & Forestry Univ, Coll Agr, Fuzhou 350002, Peoples R China

关键词： passion fruit; LBD transcription factor; floral development; target genes; gene expression

期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES （ 影响因子：6.208； 五年影响因子：6.628 ）

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年卷期： 2022 年 23 卷 9 期

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摘要： The lateral organ boundary domain (LBD) gene is a plant-specific transcription factor that plays a crucial role in plant growth and development, including the development of lateral vegetative organs such as leaf and root development, as well as floral organs such as sepal, petal, and pollen development. Passion fruit is a tropical fruit with important agricultural, economic and ornamental value. However, there is no systematic research report available on the LBD gene family of passion fruit. In this study, a genome-wide analysis of passion fruit LBD genes identified 33 PeLBDs that were unevenly distributed across nine chromosomes. According to phylogenetic and gene structure analysis, PeLBDs were divided into two categories: Class I (27) and Class II (6). Homologous protein modeling results showed that the gene members of the two subfamilies were structurally and functionally similar. Cis-acting element and target gene prediction analysis suggested that PeLBDs might participate in various biological processes by regulating diverse target genes involved in growth and development, metabolism, hormones and stress response. Collinearity analysis indicated that the expansion of the PeLBD gene family likely took place mainly by segmental duplication, and some duplicated gene pairs such as PeLBD13/15 might show functional redundancy, while most duplicated gene pairs such as PeLBD8/12 showed different expression profiles indicating their functional diversification. After filtering low expressed genes, all Class Id PeLBDs were more highly expressed during pollen development. At the same, all Class Ic and many other PeLBDs were relatively highly expressed during ovule development, similar with their homologous LBD genes in Arabidopsis, indicating their potential regulatory roles in reproductive tissue development in passion fruit. PeLBDs that were highly expressed in floral tissues were also expressed at a higher level in tendrils with some differences, indicating the close relationships of tendrils to floral tissues. Some genes such as PeLBD23/25 might be simultaneously related to floral development and leaf early formation in passion fruit, while other PeLBDs showed a strong tissue-specific expression. For example, PeLBD17/27/29 were specifically expressed in floral tissues, while PeLBD11 were only highly expressed in fruit, suggesting their specific function in the development of certain tissues. A qRT-PCR was conducted to verify the expression levels of six PeLBDs in different tissues. Our analysis provides a basis for the functional analysis of LBD genes and new insights into their regulatory roles in floral and vegetative tissue development.