UGP — Solanum tuberosum

Summary

PGSC0003DMG401013333 (StUGP) on potato chromosome 11 encodes a UTP:glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.9) belonging to the UDPGP family. The gene is associated with UDP-glucose metabolism, glycogen metabolism, regulation of starch metabolism, sucrose anabolism and breakdown, galactose metabolism, cell wall callose deposition, wound healing, and carbohydrate transport. It has been linked to starch content, reducing sugar content, glucose content, sucrose content, drought sensitivity, oxidative stress response, disease tolerance, root morphology, and salt tolerance. Localisation associations include the cytosol, Golgi complex, plastid, chloroplast stroma, plant-type cell wall, apoplast, plasmodesma, and pollen tube. Related genes in other species are linked to plant growth, seed yield, cold stress response, and drought tolerance.