Phospholipase D (PLD) is the most important phospholipid hydrolase in plants, which can hydrolyze phospholipids into phosphatidic acid (PA) and choline. When plants encounter low temperature, drought and high salt stress, phospholipase D and its products play an important role in regulating plant growth and development and coping with stress. In this study, 16 members of StPLD gene family were identified in potato genome, which were distributed in α, β, δ, and ζ subfamilies, and their expression patterns under salt, high temperature, drought, and ABA stress were detected by qRT-PCR method. Gene expression analysis showed that the expression of StPLD genes in potato was upregulated and downregulated to varying degrees under the four stresses, indicating that the PLD gene family is involved in the interaction of potato plant hormones and abiotic stress signals. Chromosome distribution showed that StPLD gene was unevenly distributed on 8 chromosomes, and only one pair of tandem repeat genes was found. All StPLD promoters contain hormone and stress-related cis-regulatory elements to respond to different stresses. Structural analysis showed that StPLD genes in the same subgroup had a similar exon-intron structure. Our study provides a valuable reference for further research of the function and structure of PLD gene.
Keywords: PLD; abiotic stress; gene expression; potato.