“…The Dof domain is considered as a bifunctional region: DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions ( Krohn et al., 2002 ; Gupta et al., 2015 ). The first Dof gene, ZmDof1 , was found in maize ( Yanagisawa and Izui, 1993 ), and gradually expended into diverse taxonomic groups ranging from ferns and mosses to vascular plants ( Kushwaha et al., 2011 ; Lohani et al., 2021 ). Presently, genome-wide isolation of Dof TFs are emerging from sundry plants, for example, 30, 30, 119, 74 and 114 Dofs were found in monocots such as Oryza sativa ( Khan et al., 2021 ), Sorghum bicolor ( Xiao et al., 2022 ), Saccharum officinarum ( Gupta et al., 2014 ), Musa nana ( Dong et al., 2016 ), and Gossypium hirsutum ( Li et al., 2018 ), respectively.…”