Figure 3.

The heterologous expression of the archetypic PtrEPSP‐TF in rice induces the upregulation of genes involved in lignin and secondary cell wall biosynthesis. (a) Rice plants expressing archetypic PtrEPSP‐TF have more DEGs than rice plants expressing BESC35 PtrEPSP‐TF or BESC876 PtrEPSP‐TF. Red bar: upregulated genes; Green bar: downregulated genes. (b) Heat map showing expression patterns of PAL, C4H, 4CL, CAD, F5H, LACCASE, CESA4, IRX9, MYB46/83, MYB58/63, MYB20/43, and SND2/3 in four independent replicates (R1 to R4) of the archetypic PtrEPSP‐TF expression rice. Log₂FC of mean expression levels of the four replicates of empty‐vector control was set as 0. The color scale represents the value of Log₂FC