BWMK1 belongs to an MAPK family in plants. Phylogenetic tree of plant
MAPKs. Plant MAPKs included were alfalfa MMK1-4 (Jonak et al.,
1995,
1996) and TDY1
(Schoenbeck et al., 1999);
Arabidopsis AtMPK1-7 (Mizoguchi et al.,
1993), AtMPK8 (accession no. BAA92222), and AtMPK9 (accession no.
BAA92223); parsley ERMK (Ligterink et al.,
1997); tobacco NtF3, 4, and 6
(Wilson et al., 1995), WIPK
(Seo et al., 1995), and SIPK
(Zhang and Klessig, 1997); and
rice BWMK1 (He et al., 1999).
The phylogenic tree was created using ClustalW program
(Thompson et al., 1994).