RNA Biology

SUMOylation increases the protein stability of DREB2A, a key transcription factor in the response to heat stress in plant cells.

Redundant transcription factors directly modulate expression of a pectin metabolism gene to regulate mucilage composition during seed coat development.

The generation and characterization of transplastomic tobacco plants provide insight into the dual role of the chloroplast glutamyl-tRNA in protein biosynthesis and tetrapyrrole biosynthesis.

Secondary mutations in a splicing mutant correct the reading frame by switching the splice site again, and result in an insertion in a non-essential loop region of DNA2.

Repression of miR159 in tobacco triggers a constitutive defense response that confers immunity to Phytophthora parasitica.

GA-mediated cell proliferation in rice involves down-regulation of a microRNA by the degradation of DELLA protein SLENDER RICE1, thus modulating GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR expression.

A negative regulator of lignin deposition in root vascular tissue is post-transcriptionally regulated during water and phosphate limitation.

Alkane biosynthesis in cuticular wax of Arabidopsis associated with stress responses is regulated through an RNA quality control mechanism.

A green lineage-specific protein is involved in late stages of plastid ribosome biogenesis.

When rays of light enter a plant cell, they find their way to the chlorophyll pigments located in the chloroplast. Chlorophyll molecules are embedded in the light reaction complexes PSI and PSII, which capture and store the energy needed for carbon fixation in the Calvin cycle. In an ideal ...

Gene regulation in chloroplasts and mitochondria is extensively determined by posttranscriptional processes. These include C-to-U editing as well as extensive editing of polycistronic mRNAs. The processing mechanisms are surprisingly complex and guided by many PPRs and other proteins, often in a ...

A subset of soybean long non-coding RNA candidates encode small peptides of fewer than 100 amino acids, enabling further investigations into their functional roles.

miR444 promotes phytohormone brassinosteroid biosynthesis, conferring ammonium-triggered root elongation inhibition in rice.

A full-length transcriptome-based proteogenomic data set reveals the complexity of rice gene arrangement and the transcriptome’s coding ability.

The Arabidopsis Small RNA Database is a user-friendly, web-based tool for exploring over 2,000 Arabidopsis sRNA-seq libraries.

ERBB-3 BINDING PROTEIN 1 acts downstream of TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN regulating multiple aspects of protein synthesis in the meristem and counteracts RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED to sustain cell growth.

PlantAPAdb is a user-friendly database of alternative polyadenylation (APA) sites in plants, which will promote the elucidation of APA mechanisms, conservation, and gene expression regulation.

A DEAD-box RNA helicase, OsRH42, plays an essential role in ensuring accurate pre-mRNA splicing to support normal rice plant growth under low ambient temperature.

Covalent mRNA modifications play crucial roles in gene regulation and are required for plant embryonic and postembryonic development.

Cotranscriptional regulation occurs through antisense-mediated chromatin silencing.

RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization on sections can be used to investigate the tissue/subcellular localization of coding and noncoding RNAs, or for double labeling RNAs, or RNAs and proteins.

Soybean meiocyte-specific small RNAs display a positive association with the coding region of genes that are transcriptionally upregulated during meiosis.

Artificial, ligand-responsive RNA aptazymes are an efficient tool for dose- and time-dependent external control of nuclear gene expression in plants.

Flowering time in Arabidopsis is affected by a circadian clock-regulating feedback loop involving miR397b and its target gene CASEIN KINASE II SUBUNIT B3.

Light down-regulates photomorphogenic repressor PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR3 by multiple mechanisms, including phytochrome B-induced alternative splicing that inhibits PIF3 protein translation.

mTERF8 functions as a transcription terminator of chloroplast gene psbJ in Arabidopsis.

Epigenetic modifiers such as erasers, readers, writers, and recruiters control abiotic stress response in flowering plants.

Tools and approaches for plant small RNA and mRNA data visualization and analysis were developed, taking advantage of numerous sequenced genomes, and integrating tools for RNA analysis with these genomes.

An upstream open reading frame participates in phosphate-responsive gene expression to control phosphate acquisition, phosphate translocation, and reproductive success in rice.

Nucleotide metabolism is an essential function in plants.

Nitrogen nutrient can trigger changes in chromatin modifications, thus affecting RNA processing, metabolism, and growth in plants.

Short-, medium-, and long-term acclimation of tobacco seedlings to increased light intensities involves only minor adjustments of the chloroplast transcriptome and protein translation.

Regulatory small RNAs are found to exchange between plants and their pests.

Rice circRNAs regulate rice immunity against the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.

mRNA localization is an essential mechanism for protein targeting and the formation of multiple-protein complexes.

Multifaceted effects of N6-methyladenosine modification of messenger RNA on translational status in maize.

Characterizing different small RNA populations reveals the roles of development and genotype in expression variation in maize inbreds and their hybrids.

Salinity stress shapes root development through control of mRNA stability and requires the partially redundant function of SnRK2 protein kinases to modulate transcript levels.

Dry seeds contain monosome-associated mRNAs that are translationally up-regulated during early seed germination, suggesting that their translational fate is determined at seed maturation.

Light-activated phytochrome influences alternative splicing by promoting the association of a heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein with a regulatory cis element on pre-mRNA.

The number and position of C-to-U RNA editing sites in Selaginella plastomes can be extremely variable, to a degree that is currently unparalleled in any other photosynthetic genus.

Ribosomes translate the mRNA code into protein, and this process can be controlled by metabolites that bind to the translating ribosome in interaction with the nascent protein.

Cross talk between histone modifiers regulates miRNA156 and alters hormonal response during aerial tuber formation in potato under short-day conditions.

RNA N6-methyladenosine-modified genes exhibit biased subgenome fractionation, and their coevolutionary relationship with transposable elements is mediated by genomic duplication in maize (Zea mays).

This comprehensive and integrated spatiotemporal expression profile of heat-responsive mRNAs and small RNAs reveals complex and dynamic transcriptomic responses to heat stress in maize.

Histone Deacetylase Complex1 is specifically expressed in meristematic tissues and recruits histone deacetylase complexes to regulate multiple phytohormone pathway genes, regulating cell proliferation.

RNA-silencing pathways contribute to low-oxygen signaling in Arabidopsis.

Isolation of open chromatin identifies MILDEW RESISTANCE LOCUS O3 and two novel DNA boxes as likely regulators of defense priming and systemic acquired disease resistance in Arabidopsis.

ATMS1 plays a key role in regulating DNA and histone methylations by its function in the one-carbon metabolism pathway.

The latest advances in the field exogenous application of RNA molecules in plants help to protect and modify them through RNA interference (RNAi).

miR166 and its target PHB monitor SPL/NZZ gene dynamically in construction of internal boundary and formation of dehiscence zones in anthers.

Ribosome profiling revealed previously unannotated ORFs, elucidated evolutionarily conserved and unique translational features, and identified regulatory mechanisms hidden in the tomato genome.

A newly identified maize mitochondrial ribosomal protein that is highly conserved in monocots and only accumulates in kernels affects mitochondrial function and kernel development.