COMT — Cicer arietinum

Summary

CaCOMT (LOC101489645) on chickpea chromosome 5 encodes a protein with COMT-like dimerisation, COMT-like, COMT_C, WH_DNA-bd_sf, SAM-dependent_MTases_sf, and WH-like_DNA-bd_sf domains, and has quercetin 3-O-methyltransferase, flavone 3'-O-methyltransferase, acetylserotonin O-methyltransferase, myricetin 3'-O-methyltransferase, caffeate O-methyltransferase, and SAM-dependent methyltransferase activities. The gene is associated with serotonin metabolism, melatonin anabolism, regulation of anthocyanin metabolism, seed oilbody biogenesis, lignin metabolism, positive regulation of protein breakdown, mucilage anabolism during seed coat development, flavonol biosynthetic process, amino acid anabolism, response to mannitol, regulation of photosynthesis, lignin anabolism, phloem transport, response to freezing, leaf vascular tissue pattern formation, regulation of stomatal closure, vascular tissue pattern formation, and phenylpropanoid anabolism. It is linked to traits including respiration rate, root dry weight, net photosynthetic rate, leaf vein morphology trait, viral disease response trait, lignin content, cell growth and development trait, photosynthetic rate, and drought tolerance. The product localises to the plant-type cell wall, plasmodesma, plastid, cytosol, plasmalemma, cytoplasm, and nucleus. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to c