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. 2017 Mar 17;130(6):1081–1098. doi: 10.1007/s00122-017-2880-x

Table 1.

List of barley and wheat yield-determining genes with known orthologs in other cereals/species

Barley gene/synonym (localization) Rice Maize Wheat Others
Vrs1 (2H)1
Vrs4/HvRA2 4 Osra2 5 Zmra2 5 Tara2 5 ASL4 (A. thaliana)
INT-C/HvTB1 (4H)2 OsTB1 TB1 3 AtBRC1
Ppd-H1 OsPRR37 6 Ppd-D1 (2D)7 AtPRR7 6
COM2 FZP/BFL1 BD1 bh t (tetraploid), WFZP
HvAP2 (2H)8 OsEATB 9 dil1 10
HvCKX (family) OsCKX ZmCKX TaCKX +
Sdw1/Denso (3H)12 SD1 AtGA5 11
HvSLN1 SLR1 13 d8 13 Rht-B1 (4B)15, Rht-D1 (4D) 5 AtGAI 13
Grd5/HvKAO1 14 Dwarf3
Uzu1 (3H)12 D61
PcG OsFIVE2 16
Wheat Rice Maize Barley Others
TaCKX6-D1 OsCKX2 + + +
TaTEF-7A OsTEF1
TaGW2 (6A, 6B) OsGW2
TaTGW6-A1 (4A)17 OsTGW6
TaGS5-3A-T OsGS5
TaGS-D1 OsGS3
TaSus1 (7A), TaSus2 (2A, 2B, 2D)18 OsSUS ZmSUS1 HvSUS AtSUS
NFYAs, NFYBs, NFYCs (families) OsNF-Y ZmNF-YB2 HvNF-Y AtNF-Y
TaNAC2-5A OsNAC 19 + HvNAC 20 +
TaCWI +21

− Not known/not found

+ Possible orthologs (conserved protein among grasses)

Supplemental references: 1Komatsuda et al. (2007), 2Lundqvist et al. (1997), 3Ramsay et al. (2011), 4Koppolu et al. (2013), 5Bortiri et al. (2006), 6Higgins et al. (2010), 7Beales et al. (2007), 8Houston et al. (2013), 9Qi et al. (2011), 10Jiang et al. (2012), 11Barboza et al. (2013), 12Li et al. (2015), 13Wen et al. (2013), 14Jia et al. (2009), 15Börner et al. (1997), 16Nallamilli et al. (2013), 17Hu et al. (2016), 18Jiang et al. (2011), 19Distelfeld et al. (2012), 20Christiansen et al. (2011), 21Cho et al. (2005)