Table 1 Proteins and their corresponding Arabidopsis genes with known functions in senescence, selected for phylogenetic and expression analyses.

1

Arabidopsis RCCR(NP_195417)

At4g37000

[68, 132]

Chlorophyll catabolism

2

Arabidopsis PaO (NP_190074)

At3g44880

[18, 31]

3

Arabidopsis Sgr1 (NP_567673)

At4g22920

[19, 69, 70]

4

Arabidopsis WBC23 – envelope FCC transporter (NP_850781)

At5g06530

[20]

5

Arabidopsis Wrky53 (NP_194112)

At4g23810

[41, 149]

Cell and tissue specialisation

6

Arabidopsis AtNAP (NP_564966)

At1g69490

[42]

7

Auxenochlorella dee4 – amino acid permease (Q9XFY8)

At1g44100

[28]

8

Arabidopsis Fibrillin (NP_192311)

At4g04020

[55, 159]

Plastid trans-differentiation

9

Arabidopsis Carotenoid Cleavage Dioxygenase8 (NP_195007)

At4g32810

[57]

10

Brassica dnaJ chaperone OrI (ABH07405)

At5g61670

[56, 80]

11

Arabidopsis dnaJ chaperone OrII (NP_851031)

At5g06130

[56]

12

Zea Bronze1 (P16167)

At5g17050

[61]

Vacuole function

13

Zea myb C1 anthocyanin TF (P10290)

At4g34990

[62]

14

Arabidopsis AtMRP2 ATP transporter (NP_181013)

At2g34660

[63, 139]

15

Zea See2 (CAB64545)

At4g32940

[64, 82]