Abstract:Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) plays an important role in response to salt stress in plant. Through the analysis on EST sequence of Thellungiella halophila, a novel gene exhibiting high homology with plant glutathione peroxidase was discovered and named as ThGPX6 (GenBank accession number: FJ357244).ThGPX6 consists of 892 nucleotides,including a single 702bp opening reading frame which encodes a 234-amino acid peptide.Bioinformatics analysis showed that ThGPX6 had typical structures of GPX,such as catalysis region (NVASKCGLT), characteristic motif (ILAFPCNQF) and PHGPX special sequence (KWNF(S/T)KFL).Quantitative real-time PCR analysis revealed that the gene expressed in shoot and root,and could be induced by NaCl in T.halophila.These results showed that the ThGPX6 played a crucial role under salt stress in T.halophila.