Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
DOI
10.55730/1300-011X.3172
Abstract
As an important macro element for all living cells, phosphorus is essential in agricultural production systems as well and is required in large quantities by elite varieties of crops to maintain yields. Approximately 70% of worldwide cultivated land suffers from phosphorous deficiency, and it has recently been estimated that worldwide phosphorous resources will be shattered by the end of this century thus increasing the demand for crops to be more efficient in their P usage. A greater understanding of how plants can maintain yield with lower phosphorous availability is highly desirable to both breeders and farmers, therefore, significant to develop phosphorus-efficient crops. In the present research work, we selected Phosphorus-Starvation Tolerance 1 (PSTOL1) gene which is known to be involved in enhancing early root growth, thereby enabling plants to acquire more phosphorus and other nutrients and also enhances grain yield in phosphorus-deficient soil but there is no reported structure and function of this gene as PSTOL1 project involves a distinct set of opportunities and challenges, and requires different approaches to model the interaction between the PSTOL1 and PUP1. In this article, we will discuss its modeling, docking and simulation to PSTOL1 docked complex to check protein stability and its behavior with respect to time. The physicochemical properties, phylogenetic tree was constructed to find the evolutionary relationship, conserved domains were analyzed for functional annotation, This study explained that advancement of the PSTOL1-mediated phosphorous uptake 1 (PUP1) signaling cascade using structural bioinformatics is a potent biological mechanism to phosphorous starvation present in wheat.
Keywords
bioinformatics, crop, evolution, protein, wheat
First Page
169
Last Page
182
Recommended Citation
KHAN, Quratulain Mehdi; AQEEL, Muhammad; MURTAZA, Maryam; AJMAL, Wajya; UZAIR, Muhammad; FIAZ, SAJID; ATTIA, Kotb A.; ABUSHADY, Asmaa M.; KIMIKO, Itoh; KHAN, Muhammad Ramzan; and ALI, Ghulam Muhammad
(2024)
"In-silico analysis for Structural and Functional Characterization of Phosphorus-Starvation Tolerance 1 (PSTOL1) Gene,"
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry: Vol. 48:
No.
2, Article 2.
https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-011X.3172
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/agriculture/vol48/iss2/2
