Phylogenetic analysis
Phylogenetic relatedness of ERF-VII proteins was analysed using MEGA 7 (Kumar et al. , 2016). The full length of the coding regions (amino acid sequences) was aligned using Clustal Omega (Sievers et al. , 2014). A phylogenetic tree was constructed by the Neighbour-Joining method with Poisson correction and pairwise deletion of gaps. The reliability of the output phylogeny was estimated through bootstrap analysis with 1000 replicates.