Plant-encoding genes and proteins with improved cadmium resistance and transgenic lines promoting biomass enhancement

Abstract

The application discloses a plant coding gene and protein with improved cadmium resistance and promoted biomass and a transgenic strain. The application carries out RNA-seq sequencing on switchgrass under cadmium stress treatment, screens a differential expression gene with the highest up-regulation fold, and genome annotation shows that the gene codes a member of a heat shock protein 70 family (Hsp70), a chaperone BiP (Binding Protein) protein, and the gene is named as PvBiP2. An overexpression vector of the gene is constructed and is transferred into a cadmium-sensitive yeast mutant strain (ycf1), and the growth condition of the transgenic yeast on a cadmium-containing culture medium is obviously better than that of a control group. Overexpression of the PvBiP2 gene in switchgrass is found to significantly improve the cadmium resistance of the transgenic switchgrass and promote the biomass of the switchgrass.

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