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Plant-specific gene family

Mildew locus o (MLO) is a plant-specific gene family. Specific members of the Mildew Locus O gene family act as powdery mildew susceptibility factors. Their inactivation, as the result of a loss-of-function mutation, gene knock-out, or knock-down, is associated with a peculiar form of resistance, referred to as mlo resistance. The mlo gene family is widely conserved across the plant kingdom with some members evolving as early as the first land plants. Mlo proteins contain seven highly conserved transmembrane domains, as well as a calmodulin-binding domain. TaMLO genes are the MLOs in bread wheat, Triticum aestivum.

MLO genes in tomatoes

At least 17 MLO genes exist in tomatoes. They have a protein length of between 270 and 591 amino acids.

References

  1. ^ "Genome-wide analysis of the mildew resistance locus o (MLO) gene family in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)" (PDF). Plant Omics Journal. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  2. Iovieno, Paolo; Andolfo, Giuseppe; Schiavulli, Adalgisa; Catalano, Domenico; Ricciardi, Luigi; Frusciante, Luigi; Ercolano, Maria Raffaella; Pavan, Stefano (2015). "Structure, evolution and functional inference on the Mildew Locus O (MLO) gene family in three cultivated Cucurbitaceae spp". BMC Genomics. 16: 1112. doi:10.1186/s12864-015-2325-3. PMC 4696115. PMID 26715041.
  3. Kusch, Stefan; Pesch, Lina; Panstruga, Ralph (2016). "Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis Sheds Light on the Diversity and Origin of the MLO Family of Integral Membrane Proteins". Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (3): 878–895. doi:10.1093/gbe/evw036. PMC 4824068. PMID 26893454. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  4. Li, Shaoya; Zhang, Chen; Li, Jingying; Yan, Lei; Wang, Ning; Xia, Lanqin (2021). "Present and future prospects for wheat improvement through genome editing and advanced technologies". Plant Communications. 2 (4). CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences + Chinese Society for Plant Biology (Cell Press): 100211. doi:10.1016/j.xplc.2021.100211. ISSN 2590-3462. PMC 8299080. PMID 34327324.


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