EAS — Capsicum annuum

Summary

T459_31825 (EAS) on pepper chromosome PGAv.1.6.scaffold459 encodes a 5-epiaristolochene synthase, a terpene cyclase with 5-epi-aristolochene synthase and vetispiradiene synthase activities (EC 4.2.3.61). The gene is associated with sesquiterpene biosynthesis, farnesyl diphosphate breakdown, and terpenoid anabolism, as well as fruit development, defense response, response to fungi, response to jasmonic acid, cell death, hormone-mediated signaling, and regulation of gene expression. Its product localizes to the cytoplasm. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to additional sesquiterpene synthase activities (EC 4.2.3.227, 4.2.3.226, 4.2.3.21, 4.2.3.88).