• Himanshu Singh
• Vikas Kaushik

Abstract: Plants are able to produce various kinds of secondary metabolites. These secondary metabolites are a rich source of bioactive compounds that can be utilized as medicinal, therapeutic and agrochemical agents. Rapid developments in computational biology pave the way to find out the mechanism for the production of plant metabolites. The recent development in this field provides information that genes encoded some of these metabolites is arranged in an operon like gene cluster. These clusters are governed by the same regulatory element. Advancement in molecular biology, genome mining, and analysis techniques provides us the opportunity to modify these genes for large scale production of these specialized metabolites. Rice which is a major staple food for the human population was utilized in the present study to find out the gene clusters able to synthesize specialized metabolites. In this present study, we have used plantismash tool to find out the gene clusters in Oryza sativa group japonica and indica. Plantismash tool is able to provide information about the annotation and expression analysis of plant gene clusters. We have found out the 39 gene clusters on 12 chromosomes of Oryza sativa group japonica.

Keywords: Plant Metabolites, BLAST, Gene clusters, Plantismash, Oryza Sativa, Secondary Metabolites

"Gene cluster identification for secondary metabolite production in Oryza sativa japonica", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.237-240, January 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDW06041.pdf

"Gene cluster identification for secondary metabolite production in Oryza sativa japonica", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp237-240, January 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDW06041.pdf