HAM4 — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_8G077940, also known as MtHAM4, encodes a GRAS family transcription factor with sequence-specific DNA binding, transcription cis-regulatory region binding, protein homodimerization activity, DNA binding transcription factor activity, and protein binding. In barrel medic, this gene is associated with hyphopodium formation, vision, stomium development, bundle sheath cell fate specification, axillary shoot meristem initiation, maintenance of protein location in nucleus, strigolactone anabolism, radial pattern formation, procambium histogenesis, regulation of shoot development, response to nutrient, cutin anabolism, pigmentation, maintenance of shoot apical meristem identity, lipogenesis, stem cell population maintenance, asymmetric cell division, and phosphate ion detection. It is linked to traits including megasporocyte development, floral organ size, inflorescence development, axillary bud morphology, gynoecium development, leaf position, anther morphology, meristem tissue development, cell growth and development, meristem identity, floral organ development, cell cycle, auxin sensitivity, plant stress response, leaf morphology, leaf composition, hypocotyl morphology, and root morphology. The encoded protein localizes to the nuclear membrane, ER, cytoplasm, and nucleus. Studies of related genes in other species link the HAM4 family to shoot meristem regulation, shoot apical stem-cell maintenance, and vascular stem cell niche specification.