Fig. 1

Multiple amino acid sequence alignment of the GmBZL in Soybean and Arabidopsis. The marked features are the N-terminal DNA binding domain (blue underline), putative 14–3-3 binding site (blue letters and box), putative sites of phosphorylation by GSK-3 kinase (red star), and the PEST domain (green letter and over line). The conserved amino acid (proline) between Arabidopsis and soybean in the PEST region is indicated by a red box, and was mutated to the amino acid leucine for the validation of conserved functional