DCE — Daucus carota subsp. sativus

Summary

DCAR_032343, also known as DcDCE or DCE, encodes a glutamate decarboxylase with pyridoxal phosphate, calmodulin, calcium ion and protein binding activities, and belongs to the peptidase M48 family. This carrot gene on chromosome DCARv2_S653.1 is associated with glutamate metabolism, calcium ion detection, mechanical stimulus response, and localises to plastids, plasmodesmata, mitochondria, cytosol and nucleus. It is linked to shoot growth angle, ethylene sensitivity, jasmonic acid content, photosynthetic rate, stomatal complex closure time, root development, leaf senescence, seed growth and development, abscisic acid sensitivity, flowering time, salt tolerance, and responses to heat stress, drought, bacterial pathogens, hypoxia and high light. Related genes in other species are associated with GABA accumulation, hypoxia response, phosphorus deprivation tolerance, thigmomorphogenesis, GABA synthesis, fruit ripening and bacterial wilt resistance.