MicroRNAs as potential targets for abiotic stress tolerance in plants

V Shriram, V Kumar, RM Devarumath… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The microRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20–24 nt) sized, non-coding, single stranded
riboregulator RNAs abundant in higher organisms. Recent findings have established that …

RNA interference in Lepidoptera: an overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design

O Terenius, A Papanicolaou, JS Garbutt… - Journal of insect …, 2011 - Elsevier
Gene silencing through RNA interference (RNAi) has revolutionized the study of gene
function, particularly in non-model insects. However, in Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) …

MicroRNAs with macro-effects on plant stress responses

R Sunkar - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Being sessile organisms, plants often have to face challenges posed by environmental
stresses. To minimize the cellular damage caused by stress, plants have evolved highly …

Advances in Silkworm Studies Accelerated by the Genome Sequencing of Bombyx mori

Q Xia, S Li, Q Feng - Annual review of entomology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Significant progress has been achieved in silkworm (Bombyx mori) research since the last
review on this insect was published in this journal in 2005. In this article, we review the new …

The fate of miRNA* strand through evolutionary analysis: implication for degradation as merely carrier strand or potential regulatory molecule?

L Guo, Z Lu - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background During typical microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis, one strand of a∼ 22 nt RNA
duplex is preferentially selected for entry into a silencing complex, whereas the other strand …

Stars and symbiosis: microRNA-and microRNA*-mediated transcript cleavage involved in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

EA Devers, A Branscheid, P May, F Krajinski - Plant physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The majority of plants are able to form the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis in
association with AM fungi. During symbiosis development, plant cells undergo a complex …

Insect microRNAs: biogenesis, expression profiling and biological functions

K Lucas, AS Raikhel - Insect biochemistry and molecular biology, 2013 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a class of endogenous regulatory RNA molecules 21–24
nucleotides in length that modulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level via …

Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites based on the regulation of microRNAs

R Hossain, C Quispe, ASM Saikat… - BioMed Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNA (miRNA), a noncoding ribonucleic acid, is considered to be important for the
progression of gene expression in plants and animals by rupture or translational repression …

A challenge for miRNA: multiple isomiRs in miRNAomics

L Guo, F Chen - Gene, 2014 - Elsevier
Accumulating evidence suggests that a single microRNA (miRNA) locus can generate a
series of sequences during miRNA maturation process. These multiple sequences, called …

Identification and characterization of wilt and salt stress-responsive microRNAs in chickpea through high-throughput sequencing

D Kohli, G Joshi, AA Deokar, AR Bhardwaj, M Agarwal… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is the second most widely grown legume worldwide and is the
most important pulse crop in the Indian subcontinent. Chickpea productivity is adversely …