Affiliation:
1. Crop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110067, India
2. Crop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110067, India
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 inhouse
generated as well as publicly available high throughput expression data to analyse the R2R3 expression
patterns in various sorghum tissue types.
Results:
We have identified a total of 134 R2R3-MYB genes from sorghum and developed a framework
to predict gene functions. Collating information from the physical location, duplication, structural
analysis, orthologous sequences, phylogeny, and expression patterns revealed the role of duplications
in clade-wise expansion of the R2R3-MYB family as well as intra-clade functional diversification.
Using publicly available and in-house generated RNA sequencing data, we provide MYB candidates
for conditioning biofuel syndrome by engineering phenylpropanoid biosynthesis and sugar signalling
pathways in sorghum.
Conclusion:
The results presented here are pivotal to prioritize MYB genes for functional validation
and optimize agronomic traits in sorghum.
Funder
Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Subject
Genetics(clinical),Genetics
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