Table 2.

The numbers of FAD genes in different diploid plants ¹.

Groups	A. thaliana	O. sativa	G. max	B. rapa	B. oleracea	J. regia	O. europaea cv. Farga	O. europaea var. Sylvestris
FAB2/SAD	7	8	5	7	6	9	10	7
Total soluble FAD	7	8	5	7	6	9	10	7
ADS	9	0	2	20	18	1	4	1
DES	1	1	2	1	1	2	1	2
FAD4	1	1	0	4	4	1	3	2
SLD	2	1	6	4	5	3	7	5
ω-3	3	4	9	6	7	8	7	5
ω-6	2	4	17	3	3	6	8	5
Total membrane-bound FAD	18	11	36	38	38	21	30	20
Total FAD	25	19	41	45	44	30	40	27

¹ The FAD genes in A. thaliana, O. sativa, G. max, B. rapa, B. oleracea and J. regia were obtained from The Arabidopsis Information Resource [12], Chi et al. [13], Xue et al. [14] and Liu et al. [16], respectively.