CAD1 — Triticum aestivum

Summary

TaCAD1 (TRAESCS3A02G448400) on wheat chromosome 3A encodes a cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD-A5) with mannitol dehydrogenase, coniferyl-alcohol dehydrogenase, and oxidoreductase activities (EC 1.1.1.195), binding zinc. The gene is associated with lignin biosynthesis and anabolism, detoxification, responses to abiotic, biotic, endogenous, and external stimuli, stress, cell death, signal transduction, transport, secondary metabolism, and protein modification. It is linked to drought tolerance and a lignin biosynthesis trait, and its product localises to the cytoplasm. Related genes in other species connect the family to further alcohol dehydrogenase activity (EC 1.1.1.255).