Background The rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae is a destructive pathogen of rice and
other related crops, causing significant yield losses worldwide. Endogenous small RNAs …

Background Emerging knowledge of the impact of small RNAs as important cellular
regulators has prompted an explosion of small transcriptome sequencing projects. Although …

RNA interference (RNAi) is conserved in eukaryotic organisms, and it has been well studied
in many animal and plant species and some fungal species, yet it is not well studied in …

Abstract Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play essential roles in
developmental processes and disease development at the transcriptional and post …

Small RNAs are well described in higher eukaryotes such as mammals and plants; however,
knowledge in simple eukaryotes such as filamentous fungi is limited. In this study, we …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are∼ 22 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression
by targeting mRNAs for degradation or inhibiting protein translation. To investigate whether …

Small non-coding RNAs constitute a large family of regulatory molecules with diverse
function. Knowledge about small RNAs in fungi remains limited. Here, a RNA-seq-based …

Alternative splicing (AS) contributes to diversifying and regulating cellular responses to
environmental conditions and developmental cues by differentially producing multiple …

Information regarding the levels of mRNA transcript abundance under different conditions, or
in specific tissue types, can be obtained by analysis of the frequency of EST sequences in …

Small RNA (sRNA) is a class of noncoding RNA that can silence the expression of target
genes. In rice, the majority of characterized sRNAs are within the range of 21 to 24 …