Abbreviations: AAP: Amino Acid Permeases; LHT: Lysine and Histidine
      Transporters; ProT: Proline Transporters; GAT: GABA Transporters; AUX:
      Auxin Transporters; ATL: Amino Acid Transporter-Like; ANT: Aromatic and
    Neutral Amino Acid Transporters | 
  
| Figure 2: Phylogenetic tree of AAAP genes in maize, rice and Arabidopsis thaliana. The unrooted tree was generated using the MEGA v4.0 program with the neighbor-joining method. |