Functional roles of microRNAs in agronomically important plants—potential as targets for crop improvement and protection

AT Djami-Tchatchou, N Sanan-Mishra… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that have recently emerged as
important regulators of gene expression, mainly through cleavage and/or translation …

Application of micro RNA gene resources in the improvement of agronomic traits in rice

LL Zheng, LH Qu - Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Summary micro RNA s (mi RNA s) are important nonprotein‐coding genes that are involved
in almost all biological processes, including cell differentiation and fate determination …

Genome-wide changes in microRNA expression during short and prolonged heat stress and recovery in contrasting rice cultivars

SK Mangrauthia, S Bhogireddy… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to regulate expression of genes under stress. We report
here the deep sequencing of small RNAs expressed during control, short and prolonged …

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals new lncRNAs responding to salt stress in sweet sorghum

X Sun, H Zheng, J Li, L Liu, X Zhang… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can enhance plant stress resistance by regulating the
expression of functional genes. Sweet sorghum is a salt-tolerant energy crop. However, little …

High-throughput sequencing of small RNA transcriptome reveals salt stress regulated microRNAs in sugarcane

M Carnavale Bottino, S Rosario, C Grativol, F Thiebaut… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Salt stress is a primary cause of crop losses worldwide, and it has been the subject of
intense investigation to unravel the complex mechanisms responsible for salinity tolerance …

Identification of novel drought-responsive microRNAs and trans-acting siRNAs from Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench by high-throughput sequencing analysis

A Katiyar, S Smita, SK Muthusamy… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) namely microRNAs (miRNAs) and trans-acting small
interfering RNAs (tasi-RNAs) play a crucial role in post-transcriptional regulation of gene …

Plant miRNAs found in human circulating system provide evidences of cross kingdom RNAi

YC Liu, WL Chen, WH Kung, HD Huang - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Emerging evidence indicates that plant miRNAs can present within human
circulating system through dietary intake and regulate human gene expression. Hence we …

MicroRNA expression profiles in response to drought stress in Sorghum bicolor

NB Hamza, N Sharma, A Tripathi… - Gene Expression …, 2016 - Elsevier
The regulatory role of small non-coding RNAs that are 20–24 nucleotides in length has
become the foremost area of research for biologists. A major class of small RNAs …

Genome-wide identification and transcriptional profiling of small heat shock protein gene family under diverse abiotic stress conditions in Sorghum bicolor (L.)

M Nagaraju, PS Reddy, SA Kumar, A Kumar… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The small heat shock proteins (sHsps/Hsp20s) are the molecular chaperones that maintain
proper folding, trafficking and disaggregation of proteins under diverse abiotic stress …

Redox signaling mediates the expression of a sulfate‐deprivation‐inducible micro RNA 395 in A rabidopsis

G Jagadeeswaran, YF Li, R Sunkar - The Plant Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Micro RNA 395 (miR395) is a conserved mi RNA that targets a low‐affinity sulfate
transporter (AST 68) and three ATP sulfurylases (APS 1, APS 3 and APS 4) in higher plants …