Abstract:
Plant flowering regulation is an important mechanism to response to environmental stress. Heat shock protein 70 family is one of the main molecular chaperones to resist stress; miRNA can be used as a negative regulator to participate in post-transcriptional gene in flowering network. In this paper, we obtained an
Hsp70 gene from
Lonicera japonica transcriptome and combined with
Lonicera japonica miRNA library to obtain a novel miRNA that may target
Hsp70 gene through bioinformatics method. Bioinformatics and expression during different flowering stages of the obtained
Hsp70 gene and miRNA were analyzed. Phylogenetic tree showed that the obtained
Hsp70 gene was clustered with
Hsp110 subfamily in
Oryza sativa and
Arabidopis thaliana. The prediction of miRNA secondary structure showed its stable structure and high reliability. The binding site map showed that there were two base mismatches between sequences of miRNA and
Hsp70 gene. The expression analysis showed that the expression of
Hsp70 and miRNA in different flowering stages had opposite trends, indicating that miRNA might regulate
Hsp70 to participate in the flowering stages of
Lonicera japonica. This study provided new ideas for
Lonicera japonica flowering regulation and response to environmental stress mechanisms.