Ye Xiaoxue , Sun Yajun , Liu Panpan , Lee ImShik

Key Laboratory of Saline-Alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field (SAVER), Ministry of Education, Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center (ASNESC), Northeast Forestry University, No. 26 Hexing Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150040, China; Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Biology and Molecular Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 138 Haping Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150081, China.
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Molecular Soil Biology, 2016, Vol. 7, No. 11   doi: 10.5376/msb.2016.07.0011
Received: 01 Apr., 2016    Accepted: 11 Apr., 2016    Published: 18 Apr., 2016

Ye X., Sun Y., Liu P., and Lee I., 2016, Evolutionary Analysis of AMT (Ammonium Transporters) Family in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa, Molecular Soil Biology, 7(11): 1-7 (doi: 10.5376/msb.2016.07.0011)

In plant species, ammonium transporters (AMT) are generally responsible for mediating the ammonium, a primary source of nitrogen. In this study, we compared six Arabidopsis thaliana AMTs and ten Oryza sativa AMTs in terms of the aspects of phylogeny tree, gene and protein information, exon/intron organization, trans-membrane helices, conserved domain and subcellular localization. Together, this study shed light on the conservation and evolution of AMT genes in A. thaliana and O. sativa, probably contributing to the further experimentally confirmation of the genes.

ammonium transporters (AMT); Arabidopsis thaliana; Oryza sativa; exon/intron, trans-membrane; conserved domain; subcellular localization