Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) act as transcriptional regulators that mediate the defense responses against heat stress. Castanea dentata plays a major role in sustaining forest and landscape ecosystems and also exhibits medicinal properties. In this study, we identified 23 CadenHSFs genes from the genome of C. dentata. In silico approaches were employed to analyze gene structure, conserved domains, chromosomal locations, motif organization, comparative evolutionary analyses, synteny analyses, subcellular localization, and cis-regulatory element analysis. Cis-regulatory element analysis revealed that the promoters of CadenHSFs genes are associated with stress responses, light signal... More >