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 …

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 …

Argonaute2 complexes carry a population of circulating microRNAs independent of vesicles in human plasma

JD Arroyo, JR Chevillet, EM Kroh… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) circulate in the bloodstream in a highly stable, extracellular form and
are being developed as blood-based biomarkers for cancer and other diseases. However …

[HTML][HTML] The draft genome of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and resequencing of 20 diverse accessions

S Guo, J Zhang, H Sun, J Salse, WJ Lucas, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus, is an important cucurbit crop grown throughout the world.
Here we report a high-quality draft genome sequence of the east Asia watermelon cultivar …

The Plant Vascular System: Evolution, Development and FunctionsF

WJ Lucas, A Groover, R Lichtenberger… - Journal of integrative …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Contents I. Introduction 295 II. Evolution of the Plant Vascular System 295 III. Phloem
Development & Differentiation 300 IV. Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Xylem Cell …

RNA interference mechanisms and applications in plant pathology

C Rosa, YW Kuo, H Wuriyanghan… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The origin of RNA interference (RNAi), the cell sentinel system widely shared among
eukaryotes that recognizes RNAs and specifically degrades or prevents their translation in …

Extracellular miRNAs: the mystery of their origin and function

A Turchinovich, L Weiz, B Burwinkel - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Mature miRNAs are 19–24 nucleotide noncoding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate
gene expression in living cells by mediating targeted hydrolysis and translation inhibition of …

RNA-based antiviral immunity

SW Ding - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2010 - nature.com
In eukaryotic RNA-based antiviral immunity, viral double-stranded RNA is recognized as a
pathogen-associated molecular pattern and processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) …

[HTML][HTML] RNA silencing in plants

D Baulcombe - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
There are at least three RNA silencing pathways for silencing specific genes in plants. In
these pathways, silencing signals can be amplified and transmitted between cells, and may …

[HTML][HTML] Small RNAs in plants: recent development and application for crop improvement

A Kamthan, A Chaudhuri, M Kamthan… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The phenomenon of RNA interference (RNAi) which involves sequence-specific gene
regulation by small non-coding RNAs, ie, small interfering RNA (siRNA) and microRNA …