Comparative analysis of carotenoid accumulation in two goji (Lycium barbarum L. and L. ruthenicumMurr.) fruits

Table 1 Sequence information of the carotenogenesis-related genes from L. barbarum and L. ruthenicum

Gene	ORF length	Protein length	cTP ^b	Protein identity	Protein identity Lb vs Sl ^c	Protein identity
Gene	(bp ^a, Lb/Lr)	(Lb/Lr)	cTP ^b	Lb vs Lr (%)	(accession number of Sl) ^d	Lr vs Sl
DXS1	2154/2154	717/717	YES	98.61	95.13 (FN424051)	95.13
DXS2	2139/2139	712/712	YES	98.88	92.30 (FN424052)	92.72
PSY1	1239/1239	412/412	YES	99.03	87.26 (ABU40772)	86.54
PSY2	1323/1323	440/440	YES	99.55	91.14 (ABU40771)	90.68
PDS	1749/1749	582/582	YES	98.28	93.83 (AGO05926)	94.17
Z-ISO	1122/1131	373/376	NO	97.07	86.90 (XP_004252966)	85.94
ZDS	1767/1767	588/588	YES	99.32	95.24 (AGO05927)	95.24
CRTISO	1815/1815	604/604	NO	99.67	93.33 (AAL91366)	93.01
LCY-B	1506/1506	501/501	YES	99.20	87.43 (NP_001234226)	87.43
CYC-B	1497/1497	498/498	YES	97.59	87.95 (AAG21133)	88.55
LCY-E	1572/1572	523/523	YES	99.62	92.41 (Y14387)	92.60
CYP97A29	1818/1812	605/603	YES	97.69	90.97 (ACJ25969)	89.98
CYP97C11	1644/1641	547/546	YES	98.54	91.64 (ACJ25968)	91.64
CRTR-B1	915/906	304/301	NO	98.36	87.38 (CAB55625)	85.76
CRTR-B2	939/939	312/312	NO	97.76	85.99 (CAB55626)	84.08
ZEP	1989/1986	662/661	YES	98.49	89.99 (P93236)	89.39
VDE	1413/1413	470/470	YES	98.30	88.49 (ACM92036)	88.49
NCED1	1824/1824	607/607	YES	99.01	89.22 (CAB10168)	88.56
NCED6	1764/1764	587/587	YES	96.08	80.74 (XP_004240215)	80.41
CCD1A	1623/1623	540/540	YES	98.89	93.03 (AAT68187)	93.76
CCD4	1800/1800	599/599	YES	99.83	85.86 (XP_004246004)	85.86
CHRC	966/966	321/321	YES	96.26	84.76 (ABC42191)	85.37
Or1	906/906	301/301	NO	99.34		86.90
Or2	945/945	314/314	NO	97.77		88.22
HSP21	711/711	236/236	YES	97.46	79.41 (AAB07023)	80.25
Average				98.42	89.03	88.83

^aThe size in base pairs of the putative coding region from the predicted ATG to the stop codon, and bold numbers indicate that the length of coding regions are different between L. barbarum (Lb) and L. ruthenicum (Lr); ^bSoftberry ProtComp (http://linux1.softberry.com/berry.phtml?topic=protcomppl&group=programs&subgroup=proloc) prediction for a chloroplast transit peptide; ^cSolanum lycopersicum (Sl); ^dAccession from NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).

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