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Published on: December 24, 2017
Seed defensins from T. kiharae and related species: genome localization of defensin-encoding genes
Tatyana I Odintsova1, Tsezi A Egorov, Alexander Kh Musolyamov
1Laboratory of Plant Genetics, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Gubkina 3, 117809 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Abstract:
Ten new defensins have been isolated from seeds of Triticum kiharae and related species of the Triticum and Aegilops genera by a combination of chromatographic procedures including affinity-, size-exclusion, and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Nine were completely sequenced and shown to represent a family of closely related peptides with highly conserved amino acid sequences. Analysis of defensin compositions in diploid A-, B-, and D-genome donors to polyploid wheat allowed us for the first time to assign most defensin-encoding genes to particular hexaploid wheat genomes.
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