Important Roles of Key Genes and Transcription Factors in Flower Color Differences of Nicotiana alata
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Plant Materials
2.2. RNA Extraction and Sequencing
2.3. De Novo Assembly and Differential Expression Genes (DEGs) Analysis
2.4. Functional Annotation and Enrichment Analysis
2.5. TFs and Functionality Identification
3. Results
3.1. RNA-Seq, Sequence Assembly and Differential Expression of Genes
3.2. Annotation of Unigenes and Functional Enrichment Analysis of DEGs
3.3. DEGs Involved in the Chlorophyll Metabolism and Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathways
3.4. Analysis of Differential Expression of Tfs and Protein Interaction Networks of the Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathways
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Zheng, Y.; Chen, Y.; Liu, Z.; Wu, H.; Jiao, F.; Xin, H.; Zhang, L.; Yang, L. Important Roles of Key Genes and Transcription Factors in Flower Color Differences of Nicotiana alata. Genes 2021, 12, 1976. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/genes12121976
Zheng Y, Chen Y, Liu Z, Wu H, Jiao F, Xin H, Zhang L, Yang L. Important Roles of Key Genes and Transcription Factors in Flower Color Differences of Nicotiana alata. Genes. 2021; 12(12):1976. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/genes12121976
Chicago/Turabian StyleZheng, Yalin, Yudong Chen, Zhiguo Liu, Hui Wu, Fangchan Jiao, Haiping Xin, Li Zhang, and Long Yang. 2021. "Important Roles of Key Genes and Transcription Factors in Flower Color Differences of Nicotiana alata" Genes 12, no. 12: 1976. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/genes12121976