Table 1.
Species | Genome Size | No. of Ser/Thr Kinase | No. of MLK Homolog | |
Eudicotylendons | ||||
Glycine max | 1.1 Gb | 29 | 10 | |
Nicotiaa attenuata | 2.5 Gb | 16 | 7 | |
Medicago truncatula | 465 Mb | 20 | 6 | |
Populus trichocarpa | 500 Mb | 17 | 7 | |
Arabidopsis thaliana | 135 Mb | 17 | 4 | |
Monocotylendons | ||||
Triticum aestivum | ~17 Gb | 21 | 15 | |
Hordeum vulgare | 5.3 Gb | 8 | 5 | |
Oryza sativa | 500 Mb | 15 | 6 | |
Sorghum bicolor | 700 Mb | 7 | 7 | |
Zea mays | 2.4 Gb | 8 | 5 | |
Lycopodiophyta | ||||
Selaginella moellendorffii | 110 Mb | 5 | 4 | |
Embryophyta | ||||
Marchantia polymorpha | 280 Mb | 2 | 1 | |
Physcomitrella patens | 511 Mb | 7 | 2 | |
Chlorophyta | ||||
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | 120 Mb | 2 | 2 | |
Ostreococcus lucimarinus | 13.2 Mb | 1 | 1 | |
Amborellales | ||||
Amborella trichopoda | 870 Mb | 3 | 3 |
Note: Mut9p protein sequence was used in Blast against the genomes of the indicated species (http://plants.ensembl.org/index.html).