Required for diploid filamentous growth, haploid invasive growth and flocculation. Putative transcriptional activator of FLO1. Belongs to the FLO8 family. Could be the product of a pseudogene unlikely to encode a functional protein. Strain S288c has a stop codon in position 142, which disrupts the gene coding for this protein and produces two ORFs. Because of that it is not part of the S.cerevisiae S288c complete/reference proteome set. Truncated C-terminus. Truncated C-terminus.