Engineering salinity tolerance in plants: progress and prospects

SH Wani, V Kumar, T Khare, R Guddimalli, M Parveda… - Planta, 2020‏ - Springer
Main conclusion There is a need to integrate conceptual framework based on the current
understanding of salt stress responses with different approaches for manipulating and …

MicroRNAs as potential targets for abiotic stress tolerance in plants

V Shriram, V Kumar, RM Devarumath… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
The microRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20–24 nt) sized, non-coding, single stranded
riboregulator RNAs abundant in higher organisms. Recent findings have established that …

Comprehensive mechanism of gene silencing and its role in plant growth and development

AH El-Sappah, K Yan, Q Huang, MM Islam… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Gene silencing is a negative feedback mechanism that regulates gene expression to define
cell fate and also regulates metabolism and gene expression throughout the life of an …

Regulatory role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in the recent development of abiotic stress tolerance of plants

Y Begum - Gene, 2022‏ - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a distinct groups of single-stranded non-coding, tiny regulatory
RNAs approximately 20–24 nucleotides in length. miRNAs negatively influence gene …

MicroRNA-mediated gene silencing in plant defense and viral counter-defense

SR Liu, JJ Zhou, CG Hu, CL Wei, JZ Zhang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs of approximately 20–24 nucleotides in length
that serve as central regulators of eukaryotic gene expression by targeting mRNAs for …

RNA-based vaccination of plants for control of viruses

AE Voloudakis, A Kaldis, BL Patil - Annual Review of Virology, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Plant viruses cause nearly half of the emerging plant diseases worldwide, contributing to 10–
15% of crop yield losses. Control of plant viral diseases is mainly accomplished by extensive …

Plant small RNAs: the essential epigenetic regulators of gene expression for salt-stress responses and tolerance

V Kumar, T Khare, V Shriram, SH Wani - Plant cell reports, 2018‏ - Springer
Saline environment cues distort the plant growth, development and crop yield. Epigenetics
has emerged as one of the prime themes in plant functional genomics for molecular-stress …

ABCB‐mediated shootward auxin transport feeds into the root clock

J Chen, Y Hu, P Hao, T Tsering, J **a, Y Zhang… - EMBO …, 2023‏ - embopress.org
Although strongly influenced by environmental conditions, lateral root (LR) positioning along
the primary root appears to follow obediently an internal spacing mechanism dictated by …

Transgene-free, virus-based gene silencing in plants by artificial microRNAs derived from minimal precursors

AE Cisneros, T Martín-García, A Primc… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs) are highly specific, 21-nucleotide (nt) small RNAs designed
to silence target transcripts. In plants, their application as biotechnological tools for …

miRNA applications for engineering abiotic stress tolerance in plants

SH Wani, V Kumar, T Khare, P Tripathi, T Shah… - Biologia, 2020‏ - Springer
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous, tiny RNA molecules that sit at the heart of regulating
gene expression in numerous developmental and signaling pathways. Recent …