RS4 — Cucumis melo

Summary

MELO3C015912.2 (CmRS4) on melon chromosome 2 encodes a glycosyl hydrolase 36 family protein with raffinose synthase and galactinol-raffinose galactosyltransferase activity. The gene is associated with stachyose and oligosaccharide anabolism, sucrose and carbohydrate metabolism, fruit development and ripening, protein processing, the TCA cycle, response to oxidative stress, signal transduction, and is linked to photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, stomatal resistance, and sugar and sucrose content. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to fruit yield, size, dry weight and length, seed size and longevity, drought tolerance, low temperature stress tolerance, nematode damage response, phloem loading, source-sink regulation, carbon partitioning, and stachyose biosynthesis.