Phytoliths in Taxonomy of Phylogenetic Domains of Plants

Table 1

The presence of functional and structural homologues of proteins and biosilicification peptides in plants of various types of taxonomy.

	Parameters	Silaffins	Silacidins	Silicase	Silicateins	SIT
Chondrus crispus ^1	*	30 F	2 F	6 F and P	12 F and P	24 F and P
	E value	0.046–9.9	2.4–6.3	7^−04–7.2	0.78–6.5	2^−11–9.8
	%	26–60	35–48	24–48	26–42	23–79
Physcomitrella patens ^2	*	12 F and P	>100 F	5 F and P	54 F and P	56 F and P
	E value	1e ^−09–2.4	0.002–3.4	4e ^−13–8.3	1e ^−65–5.6	1e ^−80–9.3
	%	37	32–100	26–35	23–45	23–58
Pinus pinaster ^3	*	10 F and P	>100 F	11 F	18 F and P	27 F and P
	E value	0.24–8.3	0.71–1116	0.6–9.2	5e ^−28–10	0.51–69
	%	24–50	26–100	26–40	20–37	19–75
Triticum turgidum ^4	*	13 F	>100 F	2 F	3 F	24 F and P
	E value	0.92–9.5	0.002–390	5.1–6.5	0.078–4.2	1e ^−20–9.8
	%	26–31	32–100	31	23–45	18–56
Glycine max ^5	*	11 F	>100 F	25 F and P	>100 F and P	>100 F
	E value	1e ^−12–5	0.002–1.80	4e ^−16–9.2	1e ^−70–9	2e ^−9–8.7
	%	24–40	32–100	19–37	22–52	23–67

*Number of homologues, fragment (F), protein (P), ¹red algae, ²mosses, ³coniferous, ⁴monocotyledonous, and ⁵dicotyledonous.