Genome-Wide Comparative Analysis of Flowering-Related Genes in Arabidopsis, Wheat, and Barley

Table 5

The average percentage of protein sequence similarity of flowering genes in the seven functional groups in Arabidopsis, wheat, and barley.

Functional group	AT versus TA	AT versus HV	HV versus TA
Autonomous	62.72 (16.91)	53.36 (14.48)	97.32 (2.28)
Flower development	68.77 (11.83)	63.23 (12.39)	95.19 (6.21)
Gibberellin	61.27 (15.07)	54.71 (10.95)	96.85 (2.01)
Pathway integration	74.75 (13.39)	58.95 (16.97)	95.44 (3.81)
Photoperiod	61.44 (17.99)	57.37 (16.25)	94.48 (5.99)
Regulation	69.78 (13.04)	61.97 (13.49)	96.49 (3.75)
Vernalization	58.88 (8.31)	44.63 (13.04)	81.64 (15.04)

AT versus TA, comparison of flowering protein sequences between Arabidopsis and wheat; AT versus HV, comparison of flowering protein sequences between Arabidopsis and barley; HV versus TA, comparison of flowering protein sequences between barley and wheat. The values in the parentheses are standard deviations.