WOX5 — Arabidopsis thaliana

Summary

AT3G11260 (WOX5) encodes a WUSCHEL-like homeobox protein, also known as WOX5B, that contains a homeobox domain and is annotated with sequence-specific DNA binding and chromatin binding activities. In Arabidopsis, WOX5 is associated with root apical stem-cell maintenance, root meristem regulation, callus formation, and organ regeneration. The gene is linked to stem cell proliferation and differentiation, endosperm cellularization, floral organ formation, and tracheary element differentiation. WOX5 has been connected to numerous agronomic traits including root branching, shoot meristem development, carpel number, seed set percent, silique fruit morphology, seed coat morphology, fruit size, leaf morphology, phyllotaxy, days to flowering, stem elongation, root hair length, lateral root length, root mass density, and lignin content. It is also associated with auxin content, cytokinin content and sensitivity, jasmonic acid content and sensitivity, calcium concentration, and sporogenesis.