Phylogenomic Analysis of R2R3 MYB Transcription Factors in Sorghum and their Role in Conditioning Biofuel Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large scale cultivation of sorghum for food, feed, and biofuel requires concerted efforts for engineering multipurpose cultivars with optimised agronomic traits. Due to their vital role in regulating the biosynthesis of phenylpropanoid-derived compounds, biomass composition, biotic, and abiotic stress response, R2R3-MYB family transcription factors are ideal targets for improving environmental resilience and economic value of sorghum.

Methods

We used diverse computational biology tools to survey the sorghum genome to identify R2R3-MYB transcription factors followed by their structural and phylogenomic analysis. We used in-house generated as well as publicly available high throughput expression data to analyse the R2R3 expression patterns in various sorghum tissue

SUBMITTER: Singh V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7324873 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature