STZ — Glycine max

Summary

GmSTZ (GLYMA_14G088300V4) encodes a C2H2-type zinc finger protein with DNA-binding, transcription corepressor, protein kinase, and histone H3K4 methylase activities. It is associated with responses to water stress, osmotic stress, UV-B light, jasmonic acid, and insect damage, as well as with phosphate homeostasis, hydrogen peroxide metabolism, and negative regulation of transcription. The gene is linked to numerous agronomic traits including root fresh and dry weight, stem fresh weight, leaf relative water content, chlorophyll content, net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, germination rate, seed dormancy, flowering time, lateral root number and length, adventitious root number, and phosphorus uptake. Studies of related genes in other species connect the family to salt and freezing stress tolerance, drought tolerance, heat tolerance, cadmium accumulation, anthocyanin and flavonoid biosynthesis, and resistance to herbivory and Botrytis cinerea.