Article
The small RNA-based odyssey of epigenetic information in plants: from cells to species.
DNA and cell biology - 1 Dec 2012
Mirouze Marie
Abstract excerpt
In the past years a plethora of roles for small RNAs (sRNAs) have been revealed in developmental biology, physiology, pathogen interactions, and more recently in genome stability and transposon control. sRNAs have a repressive impact on gene expression by directly interfering with endogenous mRNAs or virus RNA, or by maintaining heterochromatin. In plants, the most abundant sRNAs are by far the ones produced from...
Topics
- Alleles
- DNA Methylation
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Epigenomics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genetic Loci
- Plants
- RNA, Messenger
- RNA, Plant
- RNA, Small Interfering
- Sequence Analysis, RNA
