Essential for hydrotropism in roots. Mutant roots are defective in hydrotropism, and have slightly reduced phototropism and modified wavy growth response. Has normal gravitropism and root elongation.
Computational Description
mizu-kussei 1 (MIZ1); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Protein of unknown function DUF617, plant (InterPro:IPR006460); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Protein of unknown function, DUF617 (TAIR:AT3G25640.1); Has 258 Blast hits to 256 proteins in 14 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 0; Fungi - 0; Plants - 258; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 0 (source: NCBI BLink).