Figure 2

Frequency of co-occurring ACGT elements compared to random 4 bp palindromic and non-palindromic nucleotides. By comparing the spacer length wise frequency across all four species with 8 other random control sequences, it became apparent that co-occurring ACGT elements are not specifically preferred in terms of frequency over other random base pair sequences. Although a few high frequencies were present in rice and Arabidopsis, co-occurring ACGT elements were not predominant throughout the genomes of sorghum and soybean.