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Dicer-like 5 deficiency confers temperature-sensitive male sterility in maize.
Nature communications - 9 Jun 2020
Teng Chong, Zhang Han, Hammond Reza, Huang Kun, Meyers Blake C, Walbot Virginia
Abstract excerpt
Small RNAs play important roles during plant development by regulating transcript levels of target mRNAs, maintaining genome integrity, and reinforcing DNA methylation. Dicer-like 5 (Dcl5) is proposed to be responsible for precise slicing in many monocots to generate diverse 24-nt phased, secondary small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs), which are exceptionally abundant in meiotic anthers of diverse flowering plants....
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