Table I.

BLASTP comparisons between the barley predicted protein, the rice predicted protein, and the two most similar Arabidopsis proteins

Predicted Barley Gene	Predicted Rice		Arabidopsis Gene	BLASTP		cDNA sAcc. No.	BLASTN		Exons Aligned
	Score	Expect		Score	Expect		Score	Expect
Gene 1	562	e-159	F14F8.20	421	e-118	BE429317 Wheat	315	2e-83	Start to 2
322 aa			F3N23.2	281	6e-76	BE704834 Rye	961	0	2 to stop
Gene 2	758	0	MSL3.6	503	e-142	BE494453 Rye	555	e-155	Start to 5
423 aa			T16K5.10	120	2e-27	BE413026 Barley	1,439	0	2 to 11
						AI941761 Maize	123	2e-25	10 to stop
Gene 3	1,403	0	S1K1	797	0	AW672216 Sorghum	190a	7e-48	1 to 6
825 aa			K7L4.2	269	7e-72	BE186368 Maize	182	5e-43	10 to 13
						AU031105 Rice	168	8e-39	14 to 16
						BE475909 Maize	248	e-62	16 to stop
Gene 4	1,150	0	MXF12.6	909	0	BE493856 Rye	856	0	1 to 7
644 aa			F14M4.17	368	e-102	AW428933 Tomato	70	4e-9	6 to 9
						AW758716 Pinus	76	7e-11	8 to 10
						BE357922 Sorghum	726	0	10 to 16
						BE357994 Sorghum	426	e-116	15 to 17
						BE040236 Rice	222	5e-55	16 to stop
Gene 4b	1,101	0	MXF12.6	891	0
644 aa
Rice gene 5	—		—	—		C27091 Rice	432	e-118	1
296 aa						C74904 Rice	292	3e-76	1
						C27330 Rice	312	2e-82	2

BLASTN comparisons between the barley predicted cDNA and the dbEST database. The last column includes the predicted exons confirmed by alignment with cDNA clones. Gene 5 has been found only in rice.

^aTBLASTX score.