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This article is part of the supplement: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual MCBIOS Conference. Transformational Bioinformatics: Delivering Value from Genomes

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Comparative genome analysis of lignin biosynthesis gene families across the plant kingdom

Zhanyou Xu1,2, Dandan Zhang3, Jun Hu1,2,3, Xin Zhou2, Xia Ye3, Kristen L Reichel4, Nathan R Stewart3, Ryan D Syrenne1, Xiaohan Yang5, Peng Gao1,2, Weibing Shi1,2, Crissa Doeppke4, Robert W Sykes4, Jason N Burris3, Joseph J Bozell6, (Max) Zong-Ming Cheng3, Douglas G Hayes6, Nicole Labbe6, Mark Davis4, C Neal Stewart3 and Joshua S Yuan1,2*

  • * Corresponding author: Joshua S Yuan syuan@tamu.edu

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

2 Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

3 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

4 National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA

5 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

6 Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 11):S3 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S11-S3

Published: 8 October 2009

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Phylogenetic analysis C4H genes across different species. The naming of the genes follows the schema in Figure 2 to 4. The analysis indicated that C4H genes from lower plants share a clade, while there is no distinction between monocot and dicot species.

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Phylogenetic analysis of COMT gene family. The analysis reviews three major groups as lower plants, monocot and dicot. Most of the COMT genes followed the group classification in the phylogenetic analysis.

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Phylogenetic analysis of CCR gene family. The analysis revealed three major clades for each group of plants as monocot, dicot, and lower plants.

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