Advances in Plant RNA Biology: Non Coding RNAs in Plant Development, Defense, and Adaptation
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 5
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Dear Colleagues,
The various species of non-coding RNA which accumulate in plant cells, namely the microRNA (miRNA), trans-acting small-interfering RNA (tasiRNA), repeat-associated small-interfering RNA (rasiRNA), phased secondary small-interfering RNA (phasiRNA), and natural-antisense small-interfering RNA (natsiRNA) classes of small regulatory RNA are well established as master controllers of gene expression in plant development, defense responses against invading plant pathogens, and adaptive responses to environmental stress. Contempory research has identified similar gene expression regulation roles for the more recently identified species of non-coding RNAs in plant cells, including the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), circular RNA (circRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA)-derived RNA fragments (tRFs), and tiny RNA (tiRNA) classes of regulatory non-coding RNA.
This Special Issue of IJMS aims to bring together cutting edge molecular research papers or review articles on all classes of regulatory non-coding RNA, and their protein interactors, which accumulate in plant cells and play a key role in controlling gene expression in plant development, environmental stress adaptation, pathogen defense, or plant-mediated cross kingdom communication. This Special Issue of IJMS also welcomes the inclusion of research articles which describe the development of novel biotechnology tools based on regulatory non-coding RNAs for use in the plant system to manipulate gene expression.
Dr. Andrew Eamens
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant RNA biology
- regulatory RNA
- non-coding RNA
- small RNA (including miRNAs and siRNAs)
- RNA interacting proteins
- plant development
- plant pathogen defense
- plant environmental stress adaptation
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