FBA — Cucumis sativus

Summary

CsFBA (CSA_6G450410) on cucumber chromosome 6 encodes a fructose-bisphosphate aldolase (EC 4.1.2.13) with fructose-bisphosphate aldolase activity, a member of the aldolase_I_AS and FBA_I families. The gene is associated with glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, the pentose-phosphate shunt, photorespiration, and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate metabolism. It has been linked to redox signal response, anoxia response, response to sucrose, and response to hydrogen peroxide. CsFBA is associated with traits including net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, stomatal resistance and stomatal complex closure time, photochemical quenching, respiration rate, seedling growth and development trait, root thickness, germinability at low temperature, and disease tolerance. It has been connected to salt stress adaptation, heat stress tolerance, oxidative stress tolerance, drought tolerance, and thermotolerance. The encoded protein localises to chloroplast envelope, mitochondrial envelope, vacuole, plant-type vacuole, apoplast, plant-type cell wall, nucleolus, and ER. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to photosynthesis, chilling tolerance, salt tolerance, disease resistance, and plant development.