Comprehensive analysis of TCP transcription factors and their expression during cotton (Gossypium arboreum) fiber early development.

ABSTRACT: TCP proteins are plant-specific transcription factors implicated to perform a variety of physiological functions during plant growth and development. In the current study, we performed for the first time the comprehensive analysis of TCP gene family in a diploid cotton species, Gossypium arboreum, including phylogenetic analysis, chromosome location, gene duplication status, gene structure and conserved motif analysis, as well as expression profiles in fiber at different developmental stages. Our results showed that G. arboreum contains 36 TCP genes, distributing across all of the thirteen chromosomes. GaTCPs within the same subclade of the phylogenetic tree shared similar exon/intron organization and motif composition. In addition, both segmental duplication and whole-genome duplication c

SUBMITTER: Ma J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4746668 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature