PVS1 — Capsicum annuum

Summary

CaPVS1 (PVS1, TPS32) on pepper chromosome PGAv.1.6.scaffold1248 encodes a vetispiradiene synthase 1, a terpene synthase with vetispiradiene synthase activity, 5-epi-aristolochene synthase activity, sesquiterpene synthase activity, and carbon-oxygen lyase activity acting on phosphates, and binds magnesium. The gene is associated with sesquiterpene biosynthesis, farnesyl diphosphate breakdown, the mevalonate pathway, sterol and diterpenoid anabolism, terpene and terpenoid anabolism, induced systemic resistance, defense response, response to jasmonic acid, and homeostasis. Its product localises 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, 4.2.3.61, 4.2.3.21, 4.2.3.88).