Genome Wide Analysis of Nucleotide-Binding Site Disease Resistance Genes in Brachypodium distachyon

Table 3

Comparison of duplications in the NBS-encoding R genes from the three plant genomes.

Organization	B.distachyon	Arabidopsis ^b	Rice^a
Single-genes	77	93	216
Multigenes	49	81	248
Number of family members	20	25	93
Maximal family members	7	7	10
Average members per family	2.45	3.24	2.67
Multigenes/single-gene families	0.64	0.87	1.14
Percentage of multigene families	38.9%	46.6%	53.4

Note: ^aData from Zhou et al. [11].
^bData from Meyers et al. [10].