The invention belongs to the field of
plant molecular
biotechnology and
genetic engineering and relates to a method for predicting unknown corn
gene functions, in particular to a method for predictingunknown corn
gene functions on the basis of
oil content-related genes and
oil content dynamic correlation. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, collecting the grain transcript sequencing 15 days after
pollination of a corn
selfing line to obtain
gene expression quantity data; collecting gene data associated with the
oil content of the corn kernels; collecting grain oil content dataof an associated group formed by the corn
selfing line; establishing a dynamic association analysis LA model; carrying out LA significance evaluation; excavating a gene for regulating and controllingthe dynamic correlation between the oil content associated gene and the oil content within the whole
genome range; and performing function
annotation on the gene with the obvious LA result, and predicting the function of an unknown gene. According to the method, the phenomenon that genes in corn kernels are dynamically associated with a co-expression mode is taken as a breakthrough. The function of an unknown gene is predicted. Compared with traditional co-expression
network construction, the regulation gene for regulating the co-expression mode can be quickly found through dynamic correlationanalysis.