Isolation, characterization and expression analysis of stress responsive plant nuclear transcriptional factor subunit (
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Isolation, characterization and expression analysis of stress responsive plant nuclear transcriptional factor subunit (NF‑YB2) from commercial Saccharum hybrid and wild relative Erianthus arundinaceus Swathik Clarancia Peter1 · Naveenarani Murugan1 · Manoj Vadakkancherry Mohanan1 · Sarath Padmanabhan Thelakat Sasikumar1 · Dharshini Selvarajan1 · Ashwin Narayan Jayanarayanan1 · Suresha G. Shivalingamurthy2 · Mahadevaiah Chennappa1 · Valarmathi Ramanathan1 · Hemaprabha Govindakurup1 · Bakshi Ram1 · Appunu Chinnaswamy1 Received: 2 May 2020 / Accepted: 7 June 2020 © King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology 2020
Abstract Plant nuclear factor (NF-Y) is a transcription activating factor, consisting of three subunits, and plays a key regulatory role in many stress-responsive mechanisms including drought and salinity stresses. NF-Ys function both as complex and individual subunits. Considering the importance of sugarcane as a commercial crop with high socio-economic importance and the crop being affected mostly by water deficit stress and salinity stress causing significant yield loss, nuclear transcriptional factor NF-YB2 was focused in this study. Plant nuclear factor subunit B2 from Erianthus arundinaceus (EaNF-YB2), a wild relative of sugarcane which is known for its drought and salinity stress tolerance, and commercial Saccharum hybrid Co 86032 (ShNF-YB2) was isolated and characterized. Both EaNF-YB2 and ShNF-YB2 genes are 543 bp long that encodes for a polypeptide of 180 amino acid residues. Comparison of EaNF-YB2 and ShNF-YB2 gene sequences revealed nucleotide substitutions at nine positions corresponding to three synonymous and six nonsynonymous amino acid substitutions that resulted in variations in physiochemical properties. However, multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of NF-YB2 proteins showed conservation of functionally important amino acid residues. In silico analysis revealed NF-YB2 to be a hydrophilic and intracellular protein, and EaNF-YB2 is thermally more stable than that of ShNF-YB2. Phylogenetic analysis suggested the lower rate of evolution of NF-YB2. Subcellular localization in sugarcane callus revealed NF-YB2 localization at nucleus that further evidenced it to be a transcription activation factor. Comparative RT-qPCR experiments showed a significantly higher level of NF-YB2 expression in E. arundinaceus when compared to that in the commercial Saccharum hybrid Co 86032 under drought and salinity stresses. Hence, EaNF-YB2 could be an ideal candidate gene, and its overexpression in sugarcane through genetic engineering approach might enhance tolerance to drought and salinity stresses. Keywords Drought tolerance · Salinity · Plant nuclear factor · NF-YB2 · Erianthus and saccharum
Introduction
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-020-02295-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Appunu Chinnaswamy [email protected] 1
Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR Sugarcane Breeding
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