WRKY33 — Brassica oleracea

Summary

BoWRKY33 (BOLC102_C04P009460.1) on cabbage chromosome 4 encodes a WRKY-domain transcription factor with DNA-binding, calmodulin-binding, and protein kinase activities, and is annotated as a transcriptional co-regulator. It is associated with jasmonic acid/ethylene-dependent systemic resistance, salicylic acid-mediated signaling, camalexin anabolism, positive regulation of leaf senescence and autophagy, and responses to light, carbon dioxide, hypotonic salinity, and cellular thermotolerance. The gene is linked to traits including disease tolerance, cadmium concentration, aluminum response, salt tolerance, stomatal complex closure time, flowering time, seed growth and development, root morphology, and low-temperature stress response. Related genes in other species connect it to pathogen defense, camalexin production, MAP kinase signaling, reactive oxygen species burst, and drought and salt stress tolerance.