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Molecular phylogeny and structure prediction of rice RFT1 protein

Mohd. Arif, S. and Mahmoud Dogara, A. and Ma, N. L. and Shamsir, M. S. and Parvizpour, S. and Rahmat, Z. (2016) Molecular phylogeny and structure prediction of rice RFT1 protein. Jurnal Teknologi, 78 (2). pp. 115-120. ISSN 0127-9696

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.4752

Abstract

Rice is one of the most important species in the family of Poaceae. As one of the major crop that is consumed by world population, it is cultivated commercially in many parts of the world. Hence, the phylogeny study of this crop is crucial as a step for improvement of its breeding programs. Phylogenetic relationship among 12 rice cultivars that originated from two common sub-species; Indica and Japonica were inferred by comparing protein sequence data sets derived from its flowering time gene, namely RFT1 and analyzed using maximum parsimony (MP) method. The predicted structure of RFT1 protein was generated by I-TASSER server and analyzed using YASARA software. The result showed that the cultivars were classified into two major groups, where the first group (Japonica) evolved first followed by the second group (Indica). The findings suggested that some cultivars had a close relationship with each other even it is originates from different varieties. The relationships among these cultivars provide useful information for better understanding of molecular evolution process and designing good breeding program in order to generate new cultivar.

Item Type:Article
Subjects:Q Science > QK Botany
Divisions:Biosciences and Medical Engineering
ID Code:70016
Deposited By: Narimah Nawil
Deposited On:01 Nov 2017 04:54
Last Modified:14 Nov 2017 06:23

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