Cloning and expression analysis of the MYB transcription factor RcWER-like in Rosa chinensis

MYB transcription factors play an important regulation role in the salt stress-responsive of plant. In order to characterize the biological function of a MYB transcription factor, RcWER-like, its'expression profile in diverse tissues under salt, hormone, and salt combined with hormore treatment were analyzed by real-time PCR. In this study, a MYB transcription factor gene of rose, RcWER-like was cloned from R. chinensis Old Blush based on the transcriptome and genome data. Bioinformatic analysis showed that the total length of RcWER-like gene was 882 bp, and the ORF of RcWER-like was 669 bp, which encode 223 amino acids. Multi-alignment of RcWER-like with other MYB type proteins revealed that RcWER-like had two conserved domains in the N-terminal. Phylogenic tree analysis showed that RcWER-like was clustered with PpWER-like in Prunus persica, PmWER-like in Prunus mume and MdWER-like in Malus domestica, and belonged to the R2 R3-MYB type transcription factor. Real-time PCR results showed that the expression level of RcWER-like was significantly increased at 24 h under salt stress, and the SA and MeJA treatments could also induce the expression of RcWER-like. In addition, under salt stress, RcWER-like was significantly up-regulated by SA and MeJA, which was higher than that under salt stress and exogenous hormone treatment. Meanwhile, there were significant differences in the expression patterns of RcWER-like in different tissues at different time points under the treatment of salt and hormone. These evidences implied that the R2 R3-MYB transcription factor RcWER-like in Rosa chinensis Old Blush could response to SA and MeJA, and might play an important role in response to salt stress. The results will provide candidate gene resources and theoretical basis for salt tolerance molecular breeding of rose. (authors)