Table 1 Numbers of ABC, NLR and START family proteins and their subfamily classes over three wheat genomes (A, B and D) and chi-squared tests for even distributions across the genomes

ABC

A

6

6

7

19 (3.6)

0.105

0.949

B

31

36

32

99 (18.8)

0.424

0.809

C

32

49

40

121 (23.0)

3.587

0.166

D

5

4

4

13 (2.5)

0.154

0.926

E

3

4

4

11 (2.1)

0.182

0.913

F

6

6

6

18 (3.4)

0.000

1.000

Gpdr

24

28

26

82 (15.6)

0.308

0.857

Gwbc

28

30

24

78 (14.8)

0.683

0.711

I

30

26

29

85 (16.2)

0.306

0.858

Total

165

189

172

526

1.738

0.419

NLR

CNL

320

346

313

979 (87.6)

1.853

0.396

TNL

3

3

3

9 (0.8)

0.000

1.000

N/A

47

46

36

129 (11.6)

1.721

0.423

Total

370

395

352

1117

2.505

0.286

START

HD-ST

3

4

4

47 (32.6)

0.182

0.913

HD-ST

2

2

3

54 (37.5)

0.286

0.867

MINIM

16

16

15

11 (7.6)

0.043

0.979

START

15

20

19

7 (4.9)

0.778

0.678

OTHER

9

9

7

25 (17.4)

0.320

0.852

Total

45

51

48

144

0.375

0.829