Figure 1.

Multiple sequence alignment of the ALMT1-1 protein from wheat and the hypothetical proteins from rape (BnALMT1 and BnALMT2) and Arabidopsis (At1g08430, At1g08440, and At2g27240). Alignments were carried out using CLUSTAL (http://clustalw.genome.jp). Identical amino acids and similar amino acids were indicated by dark shading and light shading, respectively, using BOXSHADE software (http://www.ch.embnet.org/software/BOX_form.html). The two lines above the sequence indicate the position of degenerate primers.