Figure 1.

The nucleotide and the deduced amino acid sequence of loblolly pine AEOMT cDNA. The translational initiation codon (with a bold line above it) indicates the plant-specific favorable context (27, 28). The putative polyadenylylation signals in the 3′ noncoding region (29) are double underlined. The N-terminal sequence confirmed by amino acid sequencing is italicized and underlined, and the degenerate PCR primers are indicated by arrows. The numbers indicate the number of nucleotides and amino acids (boldface tape).