CIPK24 — Triticum aestivum

Summary

TRAESCS7A02G377600, designated TaCIPK24, encodes a non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase (EC 2.7.11.1) containing a NAF/FISL domain and a protein kinase domain, with protein serine/threonine kinase activity and ATP binding. This bread wheat gene on chromosome 7A is associated with diverse biological processes including vitamin metabolism, sulfur compound anabolism, tRNA metabolism, aromatic amino acid metabolism, lipoate metabolism, regulation of lipid metabolism, photosynthesis light harvesting in photosystem II, cytochrome b6f complex assembly, cellular response to UV-A, phosphatidylglycerol anabolism, and glycine breakdown. TaCIPK24 is linked to numerous agronomic traits such as days to booting, grain number per spikelet, fruiting efficiency, heading time, maturity time, relative yield, peduncle length, frost damage, spike dry weight, seedling vigour, flag leaf angle, winter survival, awn length, canopy temperature, coleoptile length, root weight, stem length, spikelet fertility, grain number per plant, grain weight per spike, leaf width, grain filling period, leaf number, and leaf length. Related genes in other species are linked to salt tolerance and spikelet number.