Table 3. Gene families of P. litchii potentially implicated in plant pathogenesis.

Gene families	H. arabidopsidisa	P. litchii	P. sojaea
ABC transporters, all	55	165	134
Glycosyl hydrolases	>60	27	125
Polygalacturonases	3	12	25
Pectin methylesterases	3	7	19
Pectinesterases	3	10	19
Extracellular proteasesb	18	30	47
Elicitins and Elicitin-like	15	35	57
CBEL and CBEL-like	2	4	13
NPP1-like	10	29	29
Protease inhibitors, all	3	21	22
Crinklers	20	22	40
RXLR	134	128	396

^a Data from other oomycete species are from Tyler et al. for P. sojae and Baxter et al. for H. arabidopsidis. Counts of annotated pseudogenes are omitted.

^b Extracellular proteases refer to proteases with signal peptide within N-terminate.