PAL2 — Brassica oleracea

Summary

BoPAL2 (BOLC102_C08P038920.1) on cabbage chromosome 8 encodes a phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, an enzyme with ammonia-lyase and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activities that also possesses DNA-binding transcription factor activity and protein dimerization activity. The gene is associated with L-phenylalanine breakdown, cinnamic acid anabolism, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, melatonin anabolism, chlorophyll metabolism, ethene metabolism, pigmentation, and responses to UV, UV-A, low humidity, and chewing. It is linked to defense response, phenylpropanoid pathway activity, flavonoid biosynthesis, salicylic acid biosynthesis, drought tolerance, salt stress tolerance, copper stress response, pathogen resistance, guard cell differentiation and development, stomatal development, root gravitropism, and structural development. Related genes in other species are associated with rutin and chlorogenic acid accumulation, styrene biosynthesis, and stomatal development.