EAS — Capsicum annuum

Summary

T459_31832 (EAS) in pepper (Capsicum annuum, chromosome PGAv.1.6.scaffold459) encodes a 5-epiaristolochene synthase, a terpene synthase with 5-epi-aristolochene synthase, vetispiradiene synthase, sesquiterpene synthase, and carbon-oxygen lyase activities, and magnesium binding. The gene is associated with sesquiterpene biosynthesis, farnesyl diphosphate breakdown, diterpenoid, terpene, isoprenoid, and terpenoid anabolism, hormone-mediated signaling, fruit development, response to fungi, regulation of gene expression, response to jasmonic acid, cell death, and defense response, with cytoplasmic localization. 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).