To explore the response characteristics of potato StWRKY51 gene under high temperature stress,the StWRKY51 gene was cloned from leaf of the potato cultivar Russet Burbank by RT-PCR technology,and bioinformatics analysis of this gene and the real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR for StWRKY51 expression in potato under the high temperature stress were performed in this study.The results were as follows:The open reading frame of StWRKY51 gene is 696 bp,en-coded 231 amino acids;the amino acid sequence of StWRKY51 protein was more than 80%similar to that of Solanum pennellii,Solanum lycopersicum and Capsicum annuum;the StWRKY51 was belong to an acidic and stable hydrophilic protein,and the ratio of irregular curl in the secondary structure of protein was up to 63.64%.The domain analysis showed that StWRKY51 gene encoding protein had a typical WRKY conserved domain,and the zinc finger structure is C2H2 type,belonging to the Group Ⅱ subfamily.The qPCR results showed that the expression of StWRKY51 gene was significantly induced under high temperature treatment,indicating that StWRKY51 gene may play a regulation role in pota-to resistance to high temperature stress.The research provided a reference for further study on the function of StWRKY51 response to high temperature stress in potato.