Transcriptional Profiles of Family Genes and Their Putative Roles in the Biosynthesis of Tanshinone and Phenolic Acids in .

Bunge is a Chinese traditional herb for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and tanshinones and phenolic acids are the dominated medicinal and secondary metabolism constituents of this plant. WRKY transcription factors (TFs) can function as regulators of secondary metabolites biosynthesis in many plants. However, studies on the WRKY that regulate tanshinones and phenolics biosynthesis are limited. In this study, 69 were identified in the transcriptome database of , and phylogenetic analysis indicated that some had closer genetic relationships with other plant , which were involved in secondary metabolism. Hairy roots of were treated by methyl jasmonate (MeJA) to detect the dynamic change trend of , biosynthetic genes, and medicinal ingredients accumulation. Base on those date, a correlation analysis using Pearson's correlation coefficient was performed to construct gene-to-metabolite network and identify 9 SmWRKYs (SmWRKY1, 7, 19, 29, 45, 52, 56, 58, and 68), which were most likely to be involved in tanshinones and phenolic acids biosynthesis. Taken together, this study has provided a significant resource that could be used for further research on SmWRKY in and especially could be used as a cue for further investigating SmWRKY functions in secondary metabolite accumulation.