Fig. 1

Schematic representation of exon-intron structure of the four SuSy genes identified from the sugarcane transcriptome SUGIT. Using Blast in the Ensembl plants database with Sorghum bicolor and Zea mays as reference genomes, the gene structures were predicted. The boxes and lines represent exons and introns respectively and the empty boxes represent UTR regions. a SuSy1, b SuSy2, c SuSy4 and d SuSy7