GT7 — Solanum tuberosum

Summary

PGSC0003DMG400011749 (GT7, also known as SGT1) on potato chromosome 7 encodes a UDP-glycosyltransferase with multiple annotated activities including nuatigenin 3-beta-glucosyltransferase, scopoletin glucosyltransferase, flavonol 3-O-glucosyltransferase, and abscisic acid glucosyltransferase. The gene is associated with steroid, saponin, triterpenoid, and flavonol metabolism, as well as pigmentation, response to insects and other organisms, programmed cell death, cellular response to hypoxia, and regulation of growth. It has been linked to reactive oxygen species accumulation, hypersensitive response, disease and pathogen resistance, phytotoxicity prevention, and steroidal alkaloid glycosylation. Related genes in other species are associated with resistance to Pseudomonas syringae, bacterial disease response, flavonoid content, fruit size, and plant height.