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The ethylene-insensitive 3 (EIN3)/ethylene-insensitive 3-like (EIL) gene family is a small transcription factor gene family in higher plants. The EIN3/EIL genes participate in ethylene signal transduction by activating downstream ethylene response genes. Ethylene (ET), an important gaseous plant hormone, is involved in some important physiological processes that regulate the growth, development and senescence of plants. In addition, ethylene can act as a signal molecule to regulate the expression of some genes. Thus, the EIN3/EIL gene family plays an important role in plants. EIN3/EIL proteins are characterized by two structural features. One feature is that their N-terminal amino acid sequences are highly conserved with several significant structural features and these sequences, except for the first ~?80 amino acid residues, are also essential for the activity of proteins. The other feature is that their C-terminal sequences are less conserved than their N-terminal sequences.