Table I.

Percentage sequence identity between ACC synthases encoded by multigene family in banana

Deduced Amino Acid Sequence	Nucleotide Sequence
	MA-ACS1	MA-ACS2	MA-ACS3	Y15739	X96946	AJ223186
MA-ACS1	–	61.3	64.4	97.3	64.3	61.7
MA-ACS2	52.5	–	83.5	60.5	77.6	61.0
MA-ACS3	56.6	79.8	–	64.1	80.2	62.7
Y15739	95.7	51.4	54.9	–	63.2	61.3
X96946	57.4	74.2	78.0	56.4	–	63.4
AJ223186	61.0	55.2	58.0	59.2	59.1	–

MA-ACS1, MA-ACS2, and MA-ACS3 are the cDNA cloned in this study. Y15739, X96946, and AJ223186 indicate accession numbers in the database registered as the banana ACC synthase genes with different sequences.