KAN — Brassica oleracea var. botrytis

Summary

BoKAN (BOLND125_C02P008390.1) on cauliflower chromosome 2 encodes a protein with a KANADI-family domain and a Myb/SANT DNA-binding domain. It localises to the nucleus, cytoplasm, and cytosol and is associated with DNA binding, transcription cis-regulatory region binding, identical protein binding, protein homodimerization activity, and protein binding. BoKAN is associated with adaxial/abaxial axis specification, radial pattern formation, and abaxial cell fate specification, as well as regulation of inflorescence and floral meristem size, meristem determinacy, carpel development, vascular tissue patterning, and responses to nitrate, phosphate starvation, and salinity. It is linked to yield, inflorescence size, floral organ size and identity, leaf morphology, flowering time, jasmonic acid content, and salt tolerance. Related genes in other species connect the family to leaf polarity, gynoecium development, root and vascular development, and Fusarium wilt resistance.