Genome Wide Analysis of Nucleotide-Binding Site Disease Resistance Genes in Brachypodium distachyon.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Comparative and Functional Genomics Volume 2012, Article ID 418208, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/418208 Research Article Genome Wide Analysis of Nucleotide-Binding Site Disease Resistance Genes in Brachypodium distachyon Shenglong Tan1, 2 and Song Wu1 1 Services Computing Technology and System Laboratory, Cluster and Grid Computing Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science Technology (HUST), Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan 430074, China 2 School of Information Management, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan 430205, China Correspondence should be addressed to Song Wu, wusong@ Received 22 November 2011; Revised 20 February 2012; Accepted 27 February 2012 Academic Editor: Ferenc Olasz Copyright © 2012 S. Tan and S. Wu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nucleotide-binding site (NBS) disease resistance genes play an important role in defending plants from a variety of pathogens and insect pests. Many R-genes have been identified in various plant species. However, little is known about the NBS-encoding genes in Brachypodium distachyon. In this study, using computational analysis of the B. distachyon genome, we identified 126 regular NBS- encoding genes and characterized them on the bases of structural diversity, conserved protein motifs, chromosomal locations, gene duplications, promoter region, and phylogenetic relationships. EST hits and full-length cDNA sequences (from Brachypodium database) of 126 R-like candidates supported their existence. Based on the occurrence of conserved protein motifs such as coiled- coil (CC), NBS, leucine-