Table S2.

AP2/ERF family genes whose biological functions are reported.

Group	Gene	Function	Plant	References
I	BBM BBM1	Vegetative to embryonic growth, somatic embryogenesis, mostly expressed in developing seeds, crown, and lateral roots formation	Arabidopsis, Brassica napus (Rape), Medicago truncatula	36,37,63
I	WRL1	Required for embryo development, seed germination	Arabidopsis	64
I	ANT	Petal cell identity and mediates down-regulation of AG in flower whorl	Arabidopsis	67
I	ERF	Adaptive responses to flooding stress in rice	Rice	32
I	RAP2.7	Regulates negatively the transition to flowering time	Arabidopsis	33
I	FHP	Floral meristem identity in synergy with LEAFY	Arabidopsis	69
I	RAP2.1	Expressed in flowers, leaves, and stems, and at very low levels in roots	Arabidopsis	70
II	RAV	Negative regulator of plant growth and development	Arabidopsis	30,39
II	RAV	Defense mediated pathway in tomato	Tomato	30
III	RAP2.6	Responsive to stress hormones like jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, abscisic acid and ethylene	Arabidopsis	10
III	ERF1	Disease resistance	Arabidopsis, rice, tobacco,	4,31,71
III	ERF2	Disease resistance	Tobacco	71
III	TSRF1	Disease resistance	Tomato	72
III	ERF3	Up-regulated by feeding of the rice striped stem borer	Rice	78
III	EREBP5	Regulation of gene expression by stress factors and components of stress signal transduction pathways	Arabidopsis, Tobacco	75,76
III	EREBP1	Improved pathogen and abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic plants	Wheat, cotton	73,74
III	EREBP6	Transcription activator. Regulation of gene expression by stress factors	Arabidopsis	12
III	EREBP4	Involved in the regulation of gene expression by stress factors like jasmonate (JA), cold, drought and salt	Arabidopsis, Tobacco	75,77
III	EREBP 9,11,12	Transcriptional inhibitor having EAR motif	Arabidopsis	79
III	EREBP3	Transcriptional repressor, Little expressed in roots and cultured cells	Tobacco, rice	80,81
III	RAP2.11	Strongly induced by low temperatures in shoot tips	Rice	3
IV	CBF like Cold tolerance	Brassica napus (Rape)	83
IV	CBF3	Up regulated in response to low temperature	Tomato	84
IV	DREB1E	Transcriptional activator, play a key role in freezing tolerance and cold acclimation	Arabidopsis, rice	6,88
IV	DREB1F	Transcriptional activator, play a key role in freezing tolerance and cold acclimation	Arabidopsis	6,89
IV	TINY	Transcriptional activator, induced by cold stress	Maize	93
IV	DREB2F	Dehydration and cold	Arabidopsis	6
IV	DREB1A	Transcriptional activator, confers resistance to high cold and drought stress	Arabidopsis, Rice, Maize	85–87
IV	DREB1F	Enhance tolerance to salt, drought and low temperature	Rice, Arabidopsis	6,90
IV	DREB2	Tolerance to water deficit stress	Rice, sun flower	25,82
IV	DREB1C	Transcriptional activator, mediates high salinity- and dehydration-inducible transcription	Arabidopsis, rice	6,88
IV	DREB1I	Mediates high salinity- and dehydration-inducible transcription	Rice	89
IV	DREB2A	Tolerance to osmotic, salt and dehydration stresses	Rice, Arabidopsis	6,91
IV	DREB2B	Involved in drought and heat-shock stress tolerance	Arabidopsis, rice	6,92
IV	DREB2C	Transcriptional activator, mediates high salinity- and abscisic acid-inducible transcription	Arabidopsis, rice	6,92

Abbreviations: ANT, Antigumenta; FHP, Floral homeotic protein; BBM, Baby Boom; WRL1, Wrinkled1; TSRF1, Tomato stress responsive factor1.