Plant lipocalins and lipocalin like proteins were identified through an integrated approach of data mining, expression studies, cellular localization and phylogenetic analyses.
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CHLs were identified from the rice genome using TBLASTN using the wheat TIL-1 protein as a query and using TargetP and ChloroP to identify transit peptides.
This work is supported by grants (DBI-0321538/DBI-0834043) from the National Science Foundation and funds from the Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Seed Development, and University of Georgia.