Colloquium Agrariae (Jan 2021)

An in silico mining of the ammonium transporter gene family in Ananas comosus L.

  • Renato Marcos de Leão,
  • Silvia Graciele Hülse de Souza,
  • Tiago Benedito dos Santos

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 6
pp. 10 – 24

Abstract

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Arguably, the nitrogen (N) is an important and essential component for plant growth and development. Among the sources of N available, the ammonium is a major inorganic nitrogen source for plants is mobilized by ammonium transporter (AMT). In this study, data mining revealed that the Ananas comosus L. genome was identified eight genes of the AMT family. Based on this information, we conducted a comprehensive analysis using some bioinformatics tools in order to individually characterize the identified genes. The comprehensive analysis of AMT will provide an important foundation for further investigation of the regulatory mechanisms of AcoAMTs in A. comosus L.

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