PJB-2022-91
Evaluation of Flowering Gene Family APETALA in legumes: a case study of chickpea
Ghulam Ali Manzoor
Abstract
Development of flower and their regulations have been a critical issue in research as well as science community in most recent twenty years. Multiple plant genes co-regulate altogether in order to develop floral organs. The present piece of work was done to characterize the APETALA gene family in legume plant chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) along with their evolutionary association with other paralogues or orthologues. Sequence analysis revealed that in chickpea, the gene family APETALA comprises of three genes along with their multiple alleles. Phylogenetic analysis further confirmed that APETALA genes originally evolved into three main classes through convergence and further divergence within each class. In order to get chickpea transcripts, all those APETALA transcripts that showed homology with AP genes in model plant A. thaliana were obtained from data base of chickpea. It was concluded that the results obtained from transcript analysis for these APETALA genes revealed higher transcript levels not only in floral parts but also in other tissues than flowers, so it was concluded that the role of these genes is not specific for just flowering.
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