Encodes a putative MYB transcription factor involved in stomata development, loss of FLP activity results in a failure of guard mother cells (GMCs) to adopt the guard cell fate, thus they continue to divide resulting in abnormal stomata consisting of clusters of numerous guard cell-like cells. This phenotype is enhanced in double mutants with MYB88.
Computational Description
FOUR LIPS (FLP); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: SANT, DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR001005), Homeodomain-like (InterPro:IPR009057), Myb, DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR014778), HTH transcriptional regulator, Myb-type, DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR017930), Homeodomain-related (InterPro:IPR012287), Myb transcription factor (InterPro:IPR015495); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: myb domain protein 88 (TAIR:AT2G02820.2); Has 8538 Blast hits to 7627 proteins in 543 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 2; Metazoa - 904; Fungi - 528; Plants - 5146; Viruses - 6; Other Eukaryotes - 1952 (source: NCBI BLink).