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Abstract
Chickpea is an important crop that delivers nutritious food to the increasing global community and it will become increasingly popular as a result of climate change. Our objective was to use comprehensive data analysis to locate and identify candidate genes for fungal disease resistance. We used a comprehensive bioinformatics pipeline of sequence alignment, phylogenetic analysis, protein chemical and physical properties assessment and domain structure classification. In order to study gene evolution and genetic diversity, we compared these genes with known anti-fungal genes in different species of plants. A total of 19721 protein sequences belonging to 187 plant species have been downloaded from public databases, including the entire chickpea genome. We have successfully identified 23 potential anti-fungal genes in 10 different chromosomes and genomic scaffolds using sequence alignment and gene annotation. Ca2 and Ca6 have the highest number of genes followed by Ca3 and Ca4. Anti-fungal chickpea proteins have been identified as cysteine-rich (10), thaumatin (6), pathogenesis (4) and plasmodesmata (3) proteins. Analysis of the chemical and physical correlation of anti-fungal proteins revealed a high correlation between different aspects of anti-fungal proteins. Five different pattern patterns have been detected in the anti-fungal chickpea proteins identified, including domain families associated with fungal resistance. The maximum likelihood of phylogenetic analysis was successful in distinguishing between anti-fungal chickpea proteins as seen in their protein patterns/domains.
Highlights
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is an important crop that delivers nutritious food to the increasing global community and it will become increasingly popular as a result of climate change
Identification of chickpea anti-fungal genes Identifying anti-fungal genes in chickpea could provide a useful resource for plant breeding programs by narrowing the pool of targeted genes
The entire genome re-sequencing of chickpea was used to identify 12 chromosomal regions associated with resistance to Ascochyta Blight, all of which are located on Ca4 [7]
Summary
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is an important crop that delivers nutritious food to the increasing global community and it will become increasingly popular as a result of climate change. Production ranked third following beans with an average annual yield of over 11.5 million tons, where India has the highest share. Land allocated to chickpea has dramatically increased and is reported at 14.56 million hectares. More than 2.3 million tons of chickpea reach world markets every year to fund the requirements of countries unable to satisfy domestic consumption [1]. Fungal infections have been shown to destructive effects on the chickpea production compared to various diseases triggered by a wide range of pathogens. The most prevalent foliar and root infections are the diseases caused by Ascochyta rabiei (Ascochyta blight) and Fusarium oxysporum (fusarium wilt), respectively, which cause serious crop yield decline [4]
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