Ethylene receptors exist as a protein family in higher plants and ethylene receptor-like proteins have been demonstrated to exist in cyanobacteria, Synechocystis and Anabaena (Bleecker, 1999; Mount and Chang, 2002). Synechocystis and Anabaena are thought to share a common ancestor with the cyanobacterial lineage that evolved into the modern chloroplast of higher plants. There is a possibility that ethylene receptor genes may have been transferred to higher plant genomes from a plastid genome (Huang et al., 2003; Stegemann et al., 2003.
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Shoji, T., Owino, W.O., Yuhashi, K.I., Nonaka, S., Ezura, H. (2007). Characterization of ethylene receptor subfamilies by intron position. In: Ramina, A., Chang, C., Giovannoni, J., Klee, H., Perata, P., Woltering, E. (eds) Advances in Plant Ethylene Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6014-4_14
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