BAM1 — Cucumis melo

Summary

MELO3C023067.2, designated CmBAM1 on melon chromosome 6, encodes a protein containing a Glyco_hydro_14 domain and is annotated with DNA binding transcription factor activity and identical protein binding. The gene is associated with maltose anabolism, polysaccharide breakdown, sucrose metabolism, fruit development and ripening, response to cold, herbivory and thirst, and regulation of shoot development. It has been linked to photosynthetic rate, respiration rate and sugar content, as well as 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, root meristem development, lateral root formation, osmotic stress response and vascular development. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to starch metabolism, beta-amylase activity, shoot apical meristem maintenance, xylem patterning, cold tolerance and dehydration stress response.