Article
Evolution and Diversification of Small RNA Pathways in Flowering Plants.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Nov 2018
Lee Chin Hong, Carroll Bernard J
Abstract excerpt
Small regulatory RNAs guide gene silencing at the DNA or RNA level through repression of complementary sequences. The two main forms of small RNAs are microRNA (miRNA) and small interfering RNA (siRNAs), which are generated from the processing of different forms of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) precursors. These two forms of small regulatory RNAs function in distinct but overlapping gene silencing pathways in...
Topics
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Duplication
- Gene Silencing
- Genetic Variation
- Magnoliopsida
- RNA, Small Untranslated