Fig. 6
Top 11 candidate genes proposed for canopy layer-specific leaf angle improvement. A Upper and middle layers (four genes). B Upper layer (three genes). C All layers (four genes). Bolded genes or homologs are known/proposed to control leaf angle in sorghum or other species. Non-bolded genes are involved in biological processes related to cell size/expansion, shape and/or cell number. All proposed candidate genes are novel in sorghum except Dw3 and BZR1/BES1. Heatmaps show log2 fold change of expression between canopy layers. Graphs show similar expression patterns across layers of candidates summarized as average normalized read counts over genotypes. Axis color in graphs corresponds to gene color. n.s.: non-significant