Fig. 1

The phylogenetic tree, conserved motifs, and gene structure of the YSL gene in maize. (A) Phylogenetic tree of the maize YSL protein. The phylogenetic tree of the maize YSL protein was generated using the global alignment program ClustalW. The neighbor-joining method was used for constructing the tree, the Bootstrap method was used for stability testing 1,000 times, and the p-distance was used as the distance model. (B) The conserved motif structure of the ZmYSL protein. The size of the box indicates the length of the preserved pattern. The black lines represent non-conservative sequences. (C) Gene structure of ZmYSLs. The structures of exons and introns of ZmYSLs were analyzed using the online tool Gene Structure Display Server 2.0. The blue boxes represent the UTR region, the yellow boxes represent exons, and the black lines represent introns