Fig. 1

Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of ZmHsf11. A Phylogenetic analysis of Hsf gene families in Arabidopsis, rice, sorghum, millet and maize. B Alignment of the amino acid sequence of ZmHsf11 with its homologous proteins in other species. The related protein names are as follows: ZmHsf11, GRMZM2G098696, from Zea mays; AtHsfB2b, NC_003075.7, from Arabidopsis thaliana; OsHsfB2b, LOC_Os08g43334, from Oryza sativa; SiHsfB2b, Seita.6G236100, from Setaria italica and SbHsfB2b, Sobic.007G180300, from Sorghum bicolor