KAN — Brassica oleracea var. botrytis

Summary

BoKAN (BOLND125_C09P064500.1_BOLND125_V1) on cauliflower chromosome 9 encodes a KANADI family transcription factor with a Myb/SANT domain and homeodomain-like superfamily fold, possessing DNA-binding and transcription regulatory activity. This gene 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, and vascular tissue pattern formation. It is linked to responses to nitrate, phosphate starvation, and salinity, and to negative and epigenetic regulation of gene expression. BoKAN is associated with yield, inflorescence size, floral organ size and identity, leaf morphology, flowering time, plant growth and development, and jasmonic acid content. Related genes in other species are linked to leaf polarity, gynoecium development, abaxial identity, and Fusarium wilt resistance.