CIARC_P003 — Cicer arietinum

Summary

CIARC_P003 (RBCL) in chickpea encodes the large subunit of RuBisCO. The product possesses RuBisCO activity, magnesium binding, and monooxygenase activity, and is associated with the reductive pentose-phosphate cycle, photorespiration, protein secretion, vesicle transport, RNA metabolism, cellular homeostasis, and signal transduction. It is also linked to seed germination. Studies of related genes in other species connect the RBCL family to drought tolerance, salt tolerance, root length, spike weight, and parasitic weed interactions, though these associations are not yet established in chickpea.