GST8 — Sorghum bicolor

Summary

SbGST8 (SORBI_3001G066000) on sorghum chromosome 1 encodes a glutathione S-transferase (GST) with glutathione transferase activity (EC 2.5.1.18), glutathione binding, enzyme binding, ATP hydrolase activity, and protein binding, and belongs to the Tau-like GST family. The gene is associated with glutathione metabolism, detoxification, toxin and herbicide breakdown, cellular response to drought, regulation of response to red or far red light, response to gravity, meristem growth and structural organization, root cap development and morphogenesis, maintenance of root meristem identity, phyllome and inflorescence development, and male and female gamete generation. It is linked to traits including herbicide sensitivity, zinc sensitivity, photosynthetic rate, chlorophyll content, disease tolerance, and root and shoot biomass. The protein localizes to the cytosol, chloroplast stroma, mitochondria, apoplast, plant-type vacuole, plasmalemma, and proteasome.