WOL — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_8G106150 (MtWOL) encodes a transmembrane histidine kinase cytokinin receptor, also annotated with cytokinin binding, osmosensor activity, and histidine phosphotransfer kinase activity. In barrel medic, MtWOL is associated with nitrogen homeostasis, programmed cell death induced by symbiont, embryonic root morphogenesis, regulation of chlorophyll catabolic processes, and responses to sucrose, nitric oxide, and hydrogen peroxide. It is linked to numerous traits including floral organ size, leaf length and number, vascular tissue morphology, seed yield, lateral root length, root thickness, shoot growth angle, flowering time, leaf senescence, and stress responses to low temperature and salt. Localisation evidence places the product at the plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, plastid, nucleus, and stress granules. Related genes in other species are linked to cytokinin perception, vascular morphogenesis, root development, and seed germination.