Roles of RNA silencing in viral and non-viral plant immunity and in the crosstalk between disease resistance systems

S Lopez-Gomollon, DC Baulcombe - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA silencing is a well-established antiviral immunity system in plants, in which small RNAs
guide Argonaute proteins to targets in viral RNA or DNA, resulting in virus repression. Virus …

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 and animal small RNA communications between cells and organisms

X Chen, O Rechavi - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Since the discovery of eukaryotic small RNAs as the main effectors of RNA interference in
the late 1990s, diverse types of endogenous small RNAs have been characterized, most …

Taxon-specific, phased siRNAs underlie a speciation locus in monkeyflowers

M Liang, W Chen, AM LaFountain, Y Liu, F Peng, R Xia… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Taxon-specific small RNA loci are widespread in eukaryotic genomes, yet their role in
lineage-specific adaptation, phenotypic diversification, and speciation is poorly understood …

The OsSGS3-tasiRNA-OsARF3 module orchestrates abiotic-biotic stress response trade-off in rice

X Gu, F Si, Z Feng, S Li, D Liang, P Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recurrent heat stress and pathogen invasion seriously threaten crop production, and abiotic
stress often antagonizes biotic stress response against pathogens. However, the molecular …

Linking discoveries, mechanisms, and technologies to develop a clearer perspective on plant long noncoding RNAs

K Palos, L Yu, CE Railey, AC Nelson Dittrich… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a large and diverse class of genes in eukaryotic
genomes that contribute to a variety of regulatory processes. Functionally characterized …

The role of viruses in identifying and analyzing RNA silencing

DC Baulcombe - Annual Review of Virology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Adaptive antiviral immunity in plants is an RNA-based mechanism in which small RNAs
derived from both strands of the viral RNA are guides for an Argonaute (AGO) nuclease. The …

A telomere-to-telomere cotton genome assembly reveals centromere evolution and a Mutator transposon-linked module regulating embryo development

G Huang, Z Bao, L Feng, J Zhai, JF Wendel, X Cao… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Assembly of complete genomes can reveal functional genetic elements missing from draft
sequences. Here we present the near-complete telomere-to-telomere and contiguous …

Aroma components in horticultural crops: chemical diversity and usage of metabolic engineering for industrial applications

F Abbas, Y Zhou, D O'Neill Rothenberg, I Alam, Y Ke… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plants produce an incredible variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that assist the
interactions with their environment, such as attracting pollinating insects and seed …

Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development

LM Martins, JA Law - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is a conserved modification that must be precisely regulated during
development to facilitate its roles in silencing transposable elements and regulating gene …