De novo analysis of Gloriosa superba and Colchicum autumnale transcription factors in Rhizome development

21^st Annual European Pharma Congress

May 20-22, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland

Ganapathy Sivakumar and John Samuel Bass

University of Houston USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Pharmaceut Reg Affairs

Abstract :

The prime pharmaceutical colchicine producers such as Gloriosa superba and Colchicum autumnale are medicinal rhizomatous crops. De novo transcriptomic comparison between G. superba and C. autumnale is the first step in providing a resource to identify several transcription factor families involved in rhizome biomass biomanufacturing. Blast2GO led to the identification of transcription factors namely, MADS-box, AP2-EREBP, bHLH, MYB, NAC and WRKY candidate genes. These transcription factor families could potentially lead to the further understanding of the mechanisms involved in colchicine and biorhizome biomanufacturing.

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