“…1 demonstrates that they are 56~o identical. A search within the nucleotide and protein sequence databases revealed that ABR17 and ABR18 were similar to the pea disease resistance response proteins Psdrrl, Psdrra and Psdrrg [13,7], and to pathogenesis-related proteins from bean (PvPRpl and PvPRp2, [27,1 ]), potato (pSTH-2 and pSTH-21, [18,19]) and parsley (PcPRI-1, PcPR1-2 and PcPR1-3, [26,15]. Wound-or stress-induced proteins from soybean (H4 and Sam22, [9]) and asparagus (AoPR1 [29]), as well as the major birch pollen allergen [ 6], also showed similarity with the ABR17 and ABR18 sequences.…”