Genome Wide In Silico Characterization of Dof Transcription Factor Gene Family of Sugarcane and Its Comparative Phylogenetic Analysis with Arabidopsis, Rice and Sorghum

Sugar Tech

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 372-384

  Gupta, Shubhra ^a   Kushwaha, Hariom ^b   Singh, Vinay Kumar ^c   Bisht, Naveen Chandra ^d   Sarangi, Bijaya Ketan ^e   Yadav, Dinesh ^a  

^a D D U GORAKHPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^e NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Dof; In silico; Multiple sequence alignment; Phylogenetic tree; Rice; Sorghum; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84907088086     PISSN: 09721525     EISSN: 09740740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12355-013-0288-8     Document Type: Article

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