Plant small RNAs: their biogenesis, regulatory roles, and functions

J Zhan, BC Meyers - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plant cells accumulate small RNA molecules that regulate plant development, genome
stability, and environmental responses. These small RNAs fall into three major classes …

PIWI-interacting RNAs: small RNAs with big functions

DM Ozata, I Gainetdinov, A Zoch, D O'Carroll… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In animals, PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) of 21–35 nucleotides in length silence
transposable elements, regulate gene expression and fight viral infection. piRNAs guide …

MicroRNAs and their regulatory roles in plant–environment interactions

X Song, Y Li, X Cao, Y Qi - Annual review of plant biology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 20–24 nucleotide noncoding RNAs abundant in plants and
animals. The biogenesis of plant miRNAs involves transcription of miRNA genes, processing …

Plant microRNAs: biogenesis, homeostasis, and degradation

J Wang, J Mei, G Ren - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of endogenous, tiny, non-coding RNAs, are master regulators
of gene expression among most eukaryotes. Intracellular miRNA abundance is regulated …