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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2019, Vol. 18 Issue (7): 1587-1603    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(19)62556-6
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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of auxin response factor (ARF) gene family in strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
ZHAO Ting-ting1, WANG Zi-yu1, BAO Yu-fang1, ZHANG Xiao-chun1, YANG Huan-huan1, ZHANG Dong-ye1, JIANG Jing-bin1, ZHANG He1, LI Jing-fu1, CHEN Qing-shan2, XU Xiang-yang  
1 Laboratory of Genetic Breeding in Tomato, College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, P.R.China
2 College of Agronomy, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, P.R.China
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Abstract  Auxin signaling plays a significant role in the whole process of plant growth and development from embryogenesis to senescence. Auxin response factors (ARFs) are reported to regulate the expression of auxin response genes by binding to auxin response elements. ARF is the most critical transcription factor family which has been released in most species, but few reports in strawberry. In this study, the structure characterization of 12 FvARF genes in strawberry, their expression patterns at different development stages, different organizations, and different indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) treatments were analyzed. The expression of 12 FvARFs was found in all experiment tissues and showed almost the same trend during fruit development. All FvARFs respond to the treatment of IAA. Our study provides comprehensive information on ARF family in strawberry, including gene structures, chromosome locations, phylogenetic relationships and expression patterns. The information on FvARF genes paves the way for future research on strawberry ARF genes. Keywords:
Keywords:  auxin        auxin response factor        Fragaria vesca        gene structure        gene expression  
Received: 13 August 2018   Online: 06 November 2018   Accepted:
Fund: This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31872069), the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province, China (201602659), the Liaoning BaiQianWan Talents Program, China (2016921067), the Program for Excellent Talents in University of Liaoning Province, China (LJQ2014069).
Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence LI He, Tel: +86-24-88487143, E-mail: lihe@syau.edu.cn   
About author:  WANG Shao-xi, E-mail:1905191688@qq.com;

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WANG Shao-xi, SHI Feng-yan, DONG Xiang-xiang, LI Yu-xiang, ZHANG Zhi-hong, LI He. 2019. Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of auxin response factor (ARF) gene family in strawberry (Fragaria vesca). Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 18(7): 1587-1603.

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