ENP — Lactuca sativa

Summary

LsENP, encoded by the gene LSAT_V11C900460360 on lettuce chromosome 9, is a member of the NPH3/RPT2-like protein family, containing BTB/POZ and NPH3 domains. It is associated with FMN binding and blue light photoreceptor activity, as well as protein kinase activity and telomeric repeat binding. The gene is linked to auxin polar transport regulation, apical protein localization, and chloroplast accumulation movement. It has been connected to numerous agronomically relevant traits including biomass yield, seed yield, leaf angle, leaf yellowing tolerance, submergence tolerance, viral disease response, days to flowering, lateral root number and length, root mass density, nitrate uptake, and phototropism responses. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to phototropism, organogenesis, cotyledon formation, and root gravitropism.