EF1A — Solanum lycopersicum

Summary

SlEF1A (SOLYC06G005060.3) on tomato chromosome 6 encodes a translation elongation factor 1-alpha, a GTP-binding protein with translation elongation factor activity, GTPase activity, SUMO transferase activity and SUMO binding. It is associated with glucose and energy homeostasis, upregulation of glycolysis, sepal morphogenesis, autophagy in response to ER stress, viral DNA replication, transsulfuration, detection of temperature, oxygen metabolism, thiamin anabolism, dedifferentiation and invasive growth. The gene is linked to relative yield, fruit weight, size, shape and color, stigma color, petal size, leaf chlorophyll content, photosynthetic ability, water use efficiency, seedling vigor, carbohydrate, sucrose, carotene, carotenoid, amino acid, proline and soluble protein content, starch mobilization, nitrate uptake, root number, lateral root number, leaf angle, leaf chlorosis, flower abortion, parasitic weed, and quantum yield. It localises to the cytosol, vacuole, apoplast, nucleolus, chloroplast stroma, Golgi, plasmodesma and mitochondria.