In April 2004 the naming system for expansin genes was changed by consensus of the expansin working group.
This page shows the correspondences between new and old names.

Table 1.  Revised names and symbols of expansin genes. ___________________________________________________________________________

Original name                     Former symbol^a                       New symbol    New name

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α-Expansin                           EXP or EXPα1                        EXPA               EXPANSIN A

β-Expansin                           EXPB or EXPβ1                      EXPB              EXPANSIN B

Expansin-like                       EXPL or EXPβ2                      EXLA               EXPANSIN-LIKE A

Expansin-related                  EXPR or EXPβ3                      EXLB               EXPANSIN-LIKE B

Various                                 EXP or none                           EXLX               EXPANSIN-LIKE X

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Table 2. Correspondence between revised and obsolete names for Arabidopsis expansin genes ***

***Table courtesy of David Brummell

The expansin working group consists of:

Hans Kende^1,*, Kent J. Bradford², David A. Brummell³, Hyung-Taeg Cho⁴, Daniel J. Cosgrove⁵, Andrew J. Fleming⁶, Chris Gehring⁷, Yi Lee⁸, Simon McQueen-Mason⁹, Jocelyn K.C. Rose¹⁰ L.A.C.J. Voesenek¹¹

¹MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA (*author for correspondence; e-mail hkende@msu.edu); ²Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis CA 95616, USA; ³Crop and Food Research, Private Bag 11600, Palmerston North, 5301, New Zealand; ⁴School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea; ⁵Department of Biology, 208 Mueller Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; ⁶Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; ⁷University of the Western Cape, Department of Biotechnology, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa; ⁸Department of Tobacco Science, Chungbuk National University, 48 Gaesin-dong Hungduk-ku, Chongju 361-763, Republic of Korea; ⁹Biology Department, University of York, PO Box 373, York, YO10 5YW, UK; ¹⁰Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; ¹¹Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University, Sorbonnelaan 16, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands

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