LEN1 — Camelina sativa

Summary

CsLEN1 (CSA01G015770) in Camelina sativa encodes a chaperonin of the Cpn60/GroEL family with rubisco activator and ATP-dependent protein folding chaperone activity. The gene is associated with protein folding, chloroplast organization, heat acclimation, response to cold and jasmonic acid, systemic acquired resistance, inflorescence development, and embryo development ending in seed dormancy. It localizes to the thylakoid, chloroplast envelope, stromule, and apoplast. CsLEN1 is linked to photosynthetic rate, seed yield and weight, leaf temperature, selenium and sulfur content, nitrate uptake, high temperature stress response, disease tolerance, leaf senescence, and root morphology. Associations also include heat tolerance, biomass, thermotolerance of photosynthesis, oil content, circadian clock-regulated gene expression, and plastid development. Related genes in other species are linked to photosynthesis temperature response, Rubisco activation, heat stress tolerance, and leaf lesion formation with systemic acquired resistance.