Figure 2

Phylogenetic relationship of sHsps of rice with diverse plant species. The tree was generated by Neighbor- Joining method on amino acid sequences of sHsps aligned using Clustal X1.83 and analyzed by TreeView1.6.6. The bootstrap values (>50%) from 1000 replications are indicated at the nodes. The abbreviations of species are as follows: At- Arabidopsis thaliana, Cd- Cynodon dactylon, Gm – Glycine max, Hv- Hordeum vulgare, Lp – Lycopersicon peruvianum, Os- Oryza sativa, Ps- Pseudoroegneria spicata, Pt- Populus tremula, Sb- Sorghum bicolor, So- Saccharum officinarum, Ta -Triticum aestivum, Vv- Vitis vinifera and Zm- Zea mays. Accession number of sHsps are – Cd16.6 (ES295769), Gm16.2 (BAG09378), Hv17.1 (CB878637), Hv19.3 (BF265056), Lp16.1 (AAK84869), Lp26.2 (AAB07023), Ps19.8 (FF349294), Pt17.6 (BU893632), Sb17.4 (CN143862), So16.5 (CA143009), So17.4 (CA184170), Ta16.9B (CAA45902), Ta20.1 (CV766415), Ta26.6 (AAC96315), Vv15.7 (CAO22716), Vv16.4 (CAO64962), Vv21.7 (EE098997), Vv22.4 (CAO39056), Vv25.0 (CAO48583), Vv26.3 (CAO62740), Zm16.6 (ACG25839), Zm17.2 (CAA46641), Zm17.2 (ACG27403), Zm17.4 (ACG45088), Zm17.9 (ACF78669), Zm21.9 (ACG27568), Zm22.7 (ACG31638), Zm22.8 (ACG38401), Zm26.4 (AAA33477). CI – CXI- cytoplasmic/nuclear, ER- endoplasmic reticulum, M- mitochondria, P- plastid, Px- peroxisome. Rice sHsps are shown in bold.