SUCS — Phaseolus vulgaris

Summary

PHAVU_009G223800 (PvSUCS) on French bean chromosome 9 encodes a sucrose synthase, possessing sucrose synthase activity and transglycosidase activity, and also has DNA-binding and transcription factor activity. The gene is associated with sucrose metabolism, response to hypoxia, flooding, sorbitol, mannitol, glucose, nitrate starvation, and osmotic stress, as well as ROS metabolic process, auxin polar transport, cell cycle modulation, DNA damage response, nodulation, plant ovule development, and seed development. It localises to the cytosol, nucleus, vacuole, and plasmodesmata. PvSUCS is linked to grain yield, fruit quality, total soluble sugar content, carotenoid content, anthocyanin content, iron concentration, photosynthetic rate, flowering time, photoperiod sensitivity, vegetative to reproductive phase transition, root development, leaf senescence, and responses to high and low temperature stress, oxidative stress, and hypoxia.