FLM orthologues were identified first by OrthoMCL (V2.0) clustering (PMID: 12952885; standard parameters, inflation value = 1.5, BLAST e-value-cutoff = e-05), incorporating predicted protein sequences from Arabidopsis thaliana (TAIR10; AT1G77080.4, AT5G65060.1), Arabidopsis lyrata (V1.0; fgenesh2_kg.2__2000__AT1G77080, fgenesh2_kg.8__2543__AT5G65050, fgenesh2_kg.233__4__AT5G65050), Boechera stricta (V1.2; Bostr.4104s0001.1), Brassica rapa (V1.3; Brara.B03928.1.p, Brara.F02378.1.p), Brassica oleracea (V2.1; Bo2g166500.1, Bo2g166560.1), Capsella grandiflora (V1.1; Cagra.0450s0030.1, Cagra.0917s0081.1), Capsella rubella (V1.0; Carubv10020979m, Carubv10027327m), Gossypium raimondii (V2.1), Medicago truncatula (V4.0), Oryza sativa (MSU7), Populus trichocarpa (V3.0) and Solanum lycopersicum (ITAG2.3). Data sets were downloaded from Phytozome (Goodstein et al., 2012), PGSB PlantsDB (Spannagl et al., 2016) and Ensembl Plants (Kersey et al., 2016). Cluster(s) containing FLM were extracted and, in case of the presence of multiple group members from individual species, filtered further using the best bi-directional BLAST hit criterion. Genomic sequences and 2 kb upstream region were aligned with ClustalW2 (Larkin et al., 2007). Conserved regions in the alignment were manually annotated.