Study of DWARF sequence of different plants to understand the probable host plants for mycorrhizal associations
摘要
The mycorrhizal association is the plant-fungal association. This association is important to absorb water and essential minerals from the soil. Mycorrhiza production technology involves finding a suitable host for the fungal species. This process needs a lot of time and skill. A bioinformatics study has been done to find a suitable host from a wild plant’s mycorrhizal fungal partner. Strigolactone is the key component involved in the host and fungal partner compatibility. The strigolactone receptor (DWARF 14; Accession No: QMX78397.1) sequence was retrieved from the database and the homologs using BLAST. The phylogenetic analysis of the sequences was done to see the relatedness. An assessment was also done to find the affinity of strigolactone with receptors. Phylogenetic analysis shows that plants can be grouped according to the family, genus, and types of cotyledon. The affinity assay result predicts that positive binding affinity for all the DWARF 14 sequences of different plants to the strigolactones receptor. The affinities of DWARF sequences range from − 5.8 to -6.6 and thus indicate the stronger affinity of binding possibility to the ligand-receptor molecules. The process of finding before the experiment could be a novel approach towards initial host plant identification in less time and precise manner.