How the noncoding genome affects cellular functions is a key biological question. A
particular challenge is to distinguish the effects of noncoding DNA elements from long …

Alternative splicing (AS) of pre-mRNA represents a major mechanism underlying increased
transcriptome and proteome complexity. Here, we show that the nuclear speckle RNA …

Alternative splicing (AS) is a major source of transcriptome diversity. Long noncoding RNA s
(lnc RNA s) have emerged as regulators of AS through different molecular mechanisms. In …

Flowering is a critical stage of plant development and is closely correlated with seed
production and crop yield. Flowering transition is regulated by complex genetic networks in …

As one of the most important events during the life cycle of flowering plants, the floral
transition is of crucial importance for plant propagation and requires the precise coordination …

RNA binding proteins mediate posttranscriptional RNA metabolism and play regulatory roles
in many developmental processes in eukaryotes. Despite their known effects on the floral …

The extent to which natural polymorphisms in noncoding sequences have functional
consequences is still unknown. A large proportion of the natural variation in flowering in …

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important regulators of gene
expression and plant development. Here, we identified 6,510 lncRNAs in Arabidopsis under …

Involvement of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the regulation of gene expression in cis
has been well studied in eukaryotes but relatively little is known whether and how lncRNAs …

A repressor of the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis is the MADS box protein
FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). FCA, an RNA-binding protein, and FY, a homolog of the …