“…Moreover, the N-terminus of NLP has a highly conserved cGMP phosphodiesterase domain in addition to the RWP-RK domain, which may be involved in signal transduction or dimerization ( Yu et al, 2023 ). There have been many genome-wide studies of the NLP gene family, such as Arabidopsis thaliana ( Schauser et al, 2005 ), rice ( Oryza sativa ) ( Schauser et al, 2005 ), pepper ( Wu et al, 2023 ), alfalfa ( Wu et al, 2023 ), cucumber seedlings ( Li Y. et al, 2024 ), tea tree ( Li D. et al, 2024 ), Physcomitrella patens ( Crawford, 1995 ), wheat ( Kumar et al, 2018 ), maize ( Zea mays ) ( Ge et al, 2018 ), Brassica napus ( Feng et al, 2020 ), Chinese cabbage ( Chen et al, 2022a ) and so on. Evolutionary studies of the Chinese cabbage NLP family have revealed that the origins of duplication of the NLP gene family in the genus Brassica were almost exclusively derived from the WGD type ( Chen et al, 2022a ), yet the molecular evolutionary characterization of the other plant taxa is not known.…”