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PLOS ONE
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202168
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- National Natural Science Foundation of the P. R. China [31470696]
- Wayne State University [176452]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201608210350]
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Elucidating the cold tolerance mechanism of Paeonia lactiflora, which is one of the most valuable ornamental and medicinal plants in Asia, fundamentally impacts its breeding and production. The glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) gene plays a pivotal role in cold resistance in a variety of plant species. Here, we cloned the P. lactiflora GPAT gene, determined its expression pattern, and tested its role in cold resistance. We obtained the full-length P. lactiflora GPAT gene using tissue-cultured seedlings and real-time polymerase chain reaction and rapid amplification of cDNA ends analyses. We named this gene PIGPAT in P. lactiflora. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the PIGPAT gene is closely related with the GPAT genes in core eudicots. The phylogenetic tree containing 31 angiosperm species based on GPAT protein sequences is largely consistent with the known phylogeny in flowering plants. We conducted a time-course PIGPAT expression analysis and demonstrated that PIGPAT expression is correlated with low-temperature stress. Our results suggest that the PIGPAT gene plays an important role in regulating cold resistance in P. lactiflora.
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