New Insights into Plant Small RNAs
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2014) | Viewed by 294
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant anatomy and development; seed biology; genomics; abiotic and biotic stress physiology; transcriptional regulation; systems biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Small RNAs, especially plant small RNAs, are extremely abundant and diverse in nature. The specific functions of all but a small portion—known as key gene expression regulators involved in plant growth and development—however, are completely unknown. Unveiling the mystery of the small RNA world has just commenced and its future will rely indispensably on your efforts.
This Special Issue will not only review the past 10 years of progress in small RNA biology, but also present the accumulating research data sets of plant small RNAs through deep sequencing and, most importantly, try to project new insights into the puzzle of the small RNA world. Contributed articles are not limited to the format of short or long, review or research, deep or shallow, solid or speculative, as long as they are talking about the small RNA world in a logical manner or fashion with an open mind.
Dr. Mark F. Belmonte
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- RNA interference (RNAi)
- non-coding RNA (ncRNA)
- microRNA (miRNA)
- small interfering RNA (siRNA)
- trans-acting siRNA (tasiRNA)
- heterochromatic small interfering RNAs (hc-siRNAs)
- phased, secondary, small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs)
- natural antisense transcript small interfering RNAs (NAT-siRNAs)
- Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)
- competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA)
