BAM1 — Cucumis melo

Summary

MELO3C006362.2 (CmBAM1) on melon chromosome 7 encodes a beta-amylase (EC 3.2.1.2) with identical protein binding, DNA binding transcription factor activity, and protein binding functions. It is associated with maltose anabolism, polysaccharide breakdown, sucrose metabolism, fruit development and ripening, response to herbivore, response to cold, and response to thirst. The gene is linked to regulation of shoot development, and its product localizes to secretory vesicles, chloroplast stroma, ER, extracellular space, cytosol, and nucleus. CmBAM1 is associated with respiration rate, sugar content, photosynthetic rate, leaf starch degradation, plant growth, protophloem differentiation, shoot apical meristem size, stem cell specification, virus movement, anther development, male fertility, heat stress tolerance, disease resistance, osmotic stress response, and root and vascular development. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to starch metabolism, beta-amylase activity, shoot apical meristem maintenance, xylem patterning, and cold tolerance.