EIL1 — Solanum lycopersicum

Summary

SlEIL1 (EIL1) on tomato chromosome 6 encodes a protein with an EIN3-like DNA-binding domain and is annotated as a DNA-binding transcription factor with sequence-specific DNA binding, chromatin binding, and histone deacetylase activity. It is associated with ethylene metabolism, jasmonic acid/ethylene-dependent systemic resistance, regulation of response to wounding, regulation of defense response to insect, sex determination, petal morphogenesis, carotenoid and lycopene metabolism, sulfate assimilation, and regulation of iron transport and ascorbate biosynthesis. The gene is linked to traits including fruit color, fruit size and shape, carotenoid content, seed protein content, iron sensitivity and concentration, phosphorus response, shoot elongation under submergence, branch angle, aphid and insect damage response, high temperature stress response, and lignin biosynthesis. Related genes in other species link the family to iron efficiency, flowering time, freezing tolerance, and resistance to fungal pathogens and herbivory.