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 …

The Norway spruce genome sequence and conifer genome evolution

B Nystedt, NR Street, A Wetterbom, A Zuccolo, YC Lin… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological
and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome …

Epigenetics in forest trees: state of the art and potential implications for breeding and management in a context of climate change

MD Sow, I Allona, C Ambroise, D Conde… - Advances in botanical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Forest trees are long-lived organisms subject to repeated environmental constraints
throughout their long lifetimes. They have developed various mechanisms enabling them to …

Identification and expression analysis of miRNAs and elucidation of their role in salt tolerance in rice varieties susceptible and tolerant to salinity

S Parmar, SA Gharat, R Tagirasa, T Chandra… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Soil salinization is a serious problem for cultivation of rice, as among cereals rice is the most
salt sensitive crop, and more than 40% of the total agricultural land amounting to …

Global identification of Ginkgo biloba microRNAs and insight into their role in metabolism regulatory network of terpene trilactones by high-throughput sequencing and …

J Ye, X Zhang, J Tan, F Xu, S Cheng, Z Chen… - Industrial Crops and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Terpene trilactones (TTLs) are important secondary metabolites and healthy components of
Ginkgo biloba. They are essential for the quality of G. biloba and have been widely used in …

Ancient origin and recent innovations of RNA polymerase IV and V

Y Huang, T Kendall, ES Forsythe… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Small RNA-mediated chromatin modification is a conserved feature of eukaryotes. In
flowering plants, the short interfering (si) RNAs that direct transcriptional silencing are …

Integration of miRNA dynamics and drought tolerant QTLs in rice reveals the role of miR2919 in drought stress response

D Kumar, MK Ramkumar, B Dutta, A Kumar, R Pandey… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
To combat drought stress in rice, a major threat to global food security, three major
quantitative trait loci for 'yield under drought stress'(qDTYs) were successfully exploited in …

A single miR390 targeting event is sufficient for triggering TAS3-tasiRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis

FF de Felippes, A Marchais, A Sarazin… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In plants, tasiRNAs form a class of endogenous secondary siRNAs produced through the
action of RNA-DEPENDENT-RNA-POLYMERASE-6 (RDR6) upon microRNA-mediated …

In Silico Analysis of Small RNAs Suggest Roles for Novel and Conserved miRNAs in the Formation of Epigenetic Memory in Somatic Embryos of Norway Spruce

IA Yakovlev, CG Fossdal - Frontiers in Physiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Epigenetic memory in Norway spruce affects the timing of bud burst and bud set, vitally
important adaptive traits for this long-lived forest species. Epigenetic memory is established …

Non-Coding RNA Analyses of Seasonal Cambium Activity in Populus tomentosa

H Xu, B Chen, Y Zhao, Y Guo, G Liu, R Li… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Non-coding RNA, known as long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), circular RNA (circRNA) and
microRNA (miRNA), are taking part in the multiple developmental processes in plants …