Gene Scaffold LG TSS 5’UTR intron Start codon position Strand
FAD2a-1 Scaffold931 1 163503 162667 - 163412 162634 Minus
FAD2a-2 Scaffold360 1 465421 464614 - 465329 464581 Minus
FAD2b-2 Scaffold2404 6 137814 135809 - 137697 135788 Minus
LG: linkage group;TSS: transcription start site
Table 4: 5’UTR introns of FAD2 genes determined by alignment with flax ESTs.