Table 5. Selected de novo motifs found in Y_nSK_n dehydrin promoters and their putative function identified through PLACE database.

	Match in PLACE 5
De novo motif	Sequence	Name	E-value 6	Function
11. Seeder 1 SACACGTGG 2 (123/123 3 , 4.8e-38 4 )	GGACACGTGGC	ABRETAEM	1.1e-16	ABRE found in wheat
	TCCACGTGTC	SGBFGMGMAUX28	2.5e-13	Recognized by G-box binding factors in soybean. Found in auxin-responsive genes
	CGCCACGTGTCC	ABREBNNAPA	6.7e-16	ABRE found in rapeseed
	TGACACGTGGCA	HY5AT	6.7e-16	Bound by HY5, involved in light regulation of transcriptional activity
	MCACGTGGC	GBOXLERBCS	7.3e-14	Sequence found in promoters of light-regulated genes
12. Seeder CRCCGAC (123/123, 3.1e-11)	RCCGAC	DRECRTCOREAT	2.3e-09	DRE/CRT found in gene expressed in response to cold and dehydration
	RYCGAC	CBFHV	1.4e-07	CRT found in barley (Hordeum vulgare)

¹Number of the motif and the de novo discovery software that was used to locate that motif.

²Motif consensus sequence in IUPAC nucleotide code.

³Occurrence is the number of promoters containing a de novo motif out of the total number of promoters analyzed for a specific dehydrin class, presented in the parentheses.

⁴Siginificance of the motif, E-value calculated by MEME, Q-value calculated by Seeder, presented in the parentheses.

⁵PLACE matches were identified using STAMP, only significant matches with E-value < 0.05 are presented.

⁶E-value of the match with PLACE motif.