Plant small RNAs: their biogenesis, regulatory roles, and functions

J Zhan, BC Meyers - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plant cells accumulate small RNA molecules that regulate plant development, genome
stability, and environmental responses. These small RNAs fall into three major classes …

Plant noncoding RNAs: hidden players in development and stress responses

Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Chen, Y Chen - Annual review of cell and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
A large and significant portion of eukaryotic transcriptomes consists of noncoding RNAs
(ncRNAs) that have minimal or no protein-coding capacity but are functional. Diverse …

Nurse cell–derived small RNAs define paternal epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis

J Long, J Walker, W She, B Aldridge, H Gao, S Deans… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Epigenetic modifications to chromatin, such as the methylation of DNA
cytosines, carry regulatory information across the generations in plants and animals …

PhasiRNAs in plants: their biogenesis, genic sources, and roles in stress responses, development, and reproduction

Y Liu, C Teng, R Xia, BC Meyers - Plant Cell, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Phased secondary small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs) constitute a major category of small
RNAs in plants, but most of their functions are still poorly defined. Some phasiRNAs, known …

Analysis of transcriptome and epitranscriptome in plants using PacBio Iso-Seq and nanopore-based direct RNA sequencing

L Zhao, H Zhang, MV Kohnen, KVSK Prasad… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Nanopore sequencing from Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and Pacific BioSciences
(PacBio) single-molecule real-time (SMRT) long-read isoform sequencing (Iso-Seq) are …

Small RNA-mediated DNA methylation during plant reproduction

HT Chow, RA Mosher - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Reproductive tissues are a rich source of small RNAs, including several classes of short
interfering (si) RNAs that are restricted to this stage of development. In addition to RNA …

21-nt phasiRNAs direct target mRNA cleavage in rice male germ cells

P Jiang, B Lian, C Liu, Z Fu, Y Shen, Z Cheng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In grasses, phased small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs), 21-or 24-nucleotide (nt) in length,
are predominantly expressed in anthers and play a role in regulating male fertility. However …

MicroRNA482/2118, a miRNA superfamily essential for both disease resistance and plant development

Y Zhang, M Waseem, Z Zeng, J Xu, C Chen… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of 21–24 nucleotides (nt) noncoding small RNAs
ubiquitously distributed across the plant kingdom. miR482/2118, one of the conserved …

TarDB: an online database for plant miRNA targets and miRNA-triggered phased siRNAs

J Liu, X Liu, S Zhang, S Liang, W Luan, X Ma - BMC genomics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In plants, microRNAs (miRNAs) are pivotal regulators of plant
development and stress responses. Different computational tools and web servers have …

The plant siRNA landscape

H Vaucheret, O Voinnet - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Whereas micro (mi) RNAs are considered the clean, noble side of the small RNA world,
small interfering (si) RNAs are often seen as a noisy set of molecules whose barbarian …