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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.964888
Keywords
calmodulin; calmodulin-like; barley; expression; pan-genome; abiotic stress
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- Zhejiang Science and Technology Major Program on Agricultural New Variety Breeding [2021C02064-3-2]
- China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA [CARS-05-01A-06]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32101642]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ21C130006]
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Calmodulin (CaM) and calmodulin-like (CML) proteins play crucial roles in plant growth, development, and stress responses. In this study, the HvCaMs and HvCMLs were identified in barley through genome-wide analysis. These genes showed variations in structure, expression patterns, and evolutionary history. Some of them were identified as core genes, while others were dispensable genes. Furthermore, the expression of selected HvCaM/CML genes was found to be stress- and time-dependent. These findings contribute to a better understanding and further functional identification of HvCaMs/CMLs.
Calmodulin (CaM) and calmodulin-like (CML) proteins are Ca2+ relays and play diverse and multiple roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. However, CaM/CML gene family has not been identified in barley (Hordeum vulgare). In the present study, 5 HvCaMs and 80 HvCMLs were identified through a genome-wide analysis. All HvCaM proteins possessed 4 EF-hand motifs, whereas HvCMLs contained 1 to 4 EF-hand motifs. HvCaM2, HvCaM3 and HvCaM5 coded the same polypeptide although they differed in nucleotide sequence, which was identical to the polypeptides coded by OsCaM1-1, OsCaM1-2 and OsCaM1-3. HvCaMs/CMLs were unevenly distributed over barley 7 chromosomes, and could be phylogenetically classified into 8 groups. HvCaMs/CMLs differed in gene structure, cis-acting elements and tissue expression patterns. Segmental and tandem duplication were observed among HvCaMs/CMLs during evolution. HvCML16, HvCML18, HvCML50 and HvCML78 were dispensable genes and the others were core genes in barley pan-genome. In addition, 14 HvCaM/CML genes were selected to examine their responses to salt, osmotic and low potassium stresses by qRT-PCR, and their expression were stress-and time-dependent. These results facilitate our understanding and further functional identification of HvCaMs/CMLs.
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