Non-coding RNA in Plants
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2022) | Viewed by 3150
Special Issue Editors
Interests: non-coding RNAs; plant development; abiotic stress; plant molecular biology; microRNA
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past three decades, a remarkable number of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), such as microRNA (miRNA), small interfering RNA (siRNA), and lncRNA, have been identified in plants. ncRNAs are not only transcribed from intergenic regions, antisense strands of protein-coding gene regions, and pseudogenes, but also derived from the processing of mRNAs, rRNAs, and tRNAs, e.g., circRNAs, rRNA-derived siRNAs (risiRNAs), and tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Despite the lack of protein-coding potential, the importance of ncRNAs in the regulation of gene expression has been recognized. Many ncRNAs are largely involved in the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. ncRNAs have also been shown to play crucial roles in a variety of biological process, such as plant development, abiotic stress response, and plant–microbe interaction. With the progress of high-throughput sequencing technology and functional analysis, emerging evidence has revealed that the world of ncRNAs is continuously expanding. Although thousands of ncRNAs have been predicated or identified, their biological function still needs to be further dug out. Functional characterization of ncRNAs is a promising research endeavor to gain new insights into their biological roles. This issue focuses on novel function of ncRNAs in plants.
Dr. Jun Yan
Dr. Zhong-hui Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-coding RNA (ncRNA)
- miRNA
- siRNA
- long ncRNA
- functional analysis
- plants
- plant development
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- epigenetics
