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 …

Revisiting criteria for plant microRNA annotation in the era of big data

MJ Axtell, BC Meyers - The Plant Cell, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are∼ 21-nucleotide-long regulatory RNAs that arise from
endonucleolytic processing of hairpin precursors. Many function as essential …

RNA-directed DNA methylation: an epigenetic pathway of increasing complexity

MA Matzke, RA Mosher - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is the major small RNA-mediated epigenetic
pathway in plants. RdDM requires a specialized transcriptional machinery that comprises …

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 …

RNA interference in the nucleus: roles for small RNAs in transcription, epigenetics and beyond

SE Castel, RA Martienssen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
A growing number of functions are emerging for RNA interference (RNAi) in the nucleus, in
addition to well-characterized roles in post-transcriptional gene silencing in the cytoplasm …

Classification and comparison of small RNAs from plants

MJ Axtell - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Regulatory small RNAs, which range in size from 20 to 24 nucleotides, are ubiquitous
components of endogenous plant transcriptomes, as well as common responses to …

A developmental framework for graft formation and vascular reconnection in Arabidopsis thaliana

CW Melnyk, C Schuster, O Leyser, EM Meyerowitz - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Plant grafting is a biologically important phenomenon involving the physical joining of two
plants to generate a chimeric organism. It is widely practiced in horticulture and used in …

Mobile small RNAs regulate genome-wide DNA methylation

MG Lewsey, TJ Hardcastle… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
RNA silencing at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels regulates endogenous
gene expression, controls invading transposable elements (TEs), and protects the cell …

Epigenetic regulation in plant responses to the environment

DC Baulcombe, C Dean - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In this article, we review environmentally mediated epigenetic regulation in plants using two
case histories. One of these, vernalization, mediates adaptation of plants to different …