Whole genome information for Arabidopsis and rice were downloaded from the Arabidopsis Information Resource, version 10 (TAIR 10) (http://www.arabidopsis.org) and the RGAP 7 database (http://rice.plantbiology.msu.edu/), respectively. The KNOX protein sequences from Arabidopsis, rice, and Moso bamboo were aligned using ClustalX. Subsequently, to gain insights into the phylogenetic relationships among these sequences, MEGA 7.0 was used to construct the phylogenetic tree using the neighbor-joining (NJ) method [56 (link)], with 1000 bootstrap replicates. Motifs of the KNOX proteins were then analyzed using MEME [57 (link)]. Furthermore, conserved domains of the KNOX proteins were predicted by the NCBI Batch Web CDD-Search Tool (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/bwrpsb/bwrpsb.cgi). Finally, the protein structures were visualized using TBtools [58 (link)].
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