BOA — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_4G064730, known as MtBOA, encodes a LUX/BOA-like transcription factor with sequence-specific DNA binding, protein homodimerization, and DNA binding transcription factor activity. It localises to the nucleus and is associated with circadian rhythm regulation, photoperiodism, flowering time, nitrogen fixation, auxin biosynthesis, cytokinin signaling, red/far-red light signaling, photomorphogenesis, stomatal movement, and polar cell growth. The gene has been linked to traits including flowering time, photoperiod sensitivity, red light sensitivity, leaf drying, starch mobilization, seed viability, seedling hypocotyl length, leaf growth and senescence, plant morphology, hybrid incompatibility, and temperature stress response. Related genes in other species connect the family to circadian clock function, photoperiodic flowering, hypocotyl length, seed dormancy, and temperature compensation.