The microsynteny of genes functionally related with the fruit ripening process in Solanaceae species

JAAQUIN, EZPELETA; FLAVIA J KRSTICEVIC; PAOLO, CACCHIARELLI; GUILLERMO, PRATTA; DEBORA, ARCE; ELIZABETH TAPIA

Buenos Aires

Conferencia; Computational Biology Latin America Bioinformatics Conference; 2016

Small heat shock proteins (sHSP) are induced during ripening in tomato (S. lycopersicum), a model species for fleshy fruit development, to maintain cellular homeostasis. Previous analysis identified  4 cytosolic class I (CI) sHSP genes mapping together to an ~17.9 kbp region of chromosome 6 in S. lycopersicum cv. Heinz 1706 that are highly abundant and strongly induced during ripening (~57% of the total sHSP RNAm in the red ripe fruit). This work studies four class I sHSPs in different Solanaceae species.