Sessile organism, plants constitutively challenged with pathogens have been developed various strategies for protection, such as preformed and inducible defense mechanisms. Receptor-like Proteins(RLPs) play critical roles in defense response as well as in plant development and growth. The domain structure of RLPs consists of extracellular leucine–rich repeats, a transmembrane domain, and a short cytoplasmic tail. Here, we identified putative 170 RLP genes from pepper genome using in-house bioinformatics pipeline. The distribution of RLPs on pepper pseudomolecule showed uneven spread and a number of RLPs were physically clustered by tandem array in the specific chromosome. Motifs analysis of pepper RLPs showed conserved LRR sequences (LxxLxxLDLxxNxxxGxIP). To understand further functional and evolutionary characteristics, evolutional relationship and gene profiling analysis are on progress.

• DongKue Yun(Division of Applied Life Science, Gyeongsang National University)
• BoSeu Park(Department of Agricultural Plant Science, Gyeongsang National University)
• JuneSung Lee(Department of Agricultural Plant Science, Gyeongsang National University)
• Won-Hee Kang(Institute of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University)
• Seungill Kim(Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University)
• Myung-Shin Kim(Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University)
• Doil Choi(Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University)
• Seon-In Yeom(Department of Agricultural Plant Science, Gyeongsang National University, Institute of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University) Corresponding Author