Fig. 5

Inferred gene regulatory connections and co-localization of candidate DEGs in known yield and yield under drought QTLs. A Regulatory interactions based on drought induction in high yield mutant panicle predicted for yield, drought and yield under drought related DEGs. Target genes are indicated in smaller nodes where blue and red represents upregulated and downregulated DEGs, respectively. Larger source node represents transcription factors that significantly regulate target genes based on expression pattern and their binding site enrichment in target gene promoters. Border color of source node represents TF family classification. Edge connections are colored in the shades of yellow to purple according to the magnitude of binding site enrichment significance (FDR p-value adj.). B Chromosomal positions of several DEGs from RNA seq analysis along with few DEGs from TF-target interaction, co-localized with known QTLs for yield and drought. Green line indicates yield related QTLs and red indicate drought QTLs. Blue colored genes are DEGs from the interaction networks. On each chromosome, the gene corresponding values are the physical distances in Mb