WSCP — Brassica oleracea

Summary

BoWSCP, encoded by the cabbage gene BOLC102_C02P034030.1 on chromosome 2, is a Kunitz-type protease inhibitor family member with peptidase inhibitor and cysteine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity. The gene is associated with responses to herbivores, insects, wounding, and fungal defence, as well as with programmed cell death during cell development, regulation of pollen tube growth and stomatal closure, protein denaturation and ubiquitination, and NO storage. It has been linked to drought stress response, drought tolerance, leaf senescence, salt tolerance, root morphology, and clubroot resistance. The encoded protein localises to the apoplast, plant-type cell wall, vacuole, plasmodesma, secretory vesicle, P body, and stress granule. Related genes in other species connect the family to herbivore defence, endoplasmic reticulum body targeting, cell wall composition, and susceptibility to Heterodera schachtii.