NFP — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_8G078340, also known as NFP, encodes a protein with protein tyrosine kinase activity and ATP binding, localised to the plasma membrane and vacuolar lumen. In barrel medic, this gene is associated with root hair tip growth and elongation, lateral root development and formation, auxin transport (both acropetal and basipetal), organogenesis, hyphopodium formation, spore germination, and responses to bacterial molecules and stress. It is also linked to the regulation of defence responses to fungi and oomycetes, metabolic burst, cell death, glycoprotein anabolism, and ribosome biogenesis. Additionally, NFP has been connected to agronomic traits including fruit weight, leaf number, and plant height. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to a tyrosine kinase-like enzyme class (EC 2.7.10.-).