Table 1. The number of wheat serine protease inhibitor (serpin) genes found on each chromosome of the wheat genome.
Subgenome* | ||||
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Chromosome | A | B | D | U |
1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | — |
2 | 10 | 15 | 15 | — |
3 | 9 | 10 | 6 | — |
4 | 14 | 12 | 7 | — |
5 | 13 | 18 | 11 | — |
6 | 6 | 11 | 6 | — |
7 | 5 | 2 | 7 | — |
U | — | — | — | 4 |
Serpin genes were mined from the wheat reference gene annotations (IWGSC v1.0) using a hidden markov model profile of the serpin protein family. 189 serpin genes were found, 4 of which were unassigned to a chromosome (U), and the remainder were assigned to the A, B or D wheat subgenomes.