To understand the basic information,evolutionary relationship and the function of BnAR genes under cold stress in Brassica napus L.,the BnAR gene family of B.napus were identified in this study,and the ex-pression of family members under low temperature conditions were explored.The results showed that 14 BnAR genes were identified in B.napus.They were distributed on eight chromosomes and renamed as BnAR-1 to BnAR-14,di-viding into ADC and DapDC subgroups.Promoter cis-element analysis showed that the promoter region of BnAR genes contained various elements related to hormone and stress response.Intra-group collinearity analysis of B.napus showed that 11 pairs of genes had collinearity relationship,and Ka/Ks analysis showed that the ratio of all homolo-gous gene pairs were less than 0.5,indicating that the BnAR gene family was subjected to strict purification selec-tion in the evolutionary process.Transcriptome data analysis indicated that all 14 BnAR genes responded to low tem-perature stress,among which four genes,BnAR-4,BnAR-5,BnAR-11 and BnAR-13 were strongly subjected to low temperature stress.The results of qRT-PCR were highly consistent with the transcriptome data,so these four genes could be used as candidate genes for subsequent functional verification.
Brassica napus L.BnAR gene familybioinformaticsexpression patternlow temperature stress