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RNA Blot Analysis for the Detection and Quantification of Plant MicroRNAs
Published on: July 11, 2020
Research advances of coloring mechanism regulated by MicroRNAs in plants
Xinpeng Zhang1, Lizhen Cheng2, Hong Shang1
1Landscape Architecture Research Center, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, 250101, China.
Abstract:
In plants, microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of important small RNAs involved in their growth and development, and play a very significant role in regulating their tissue coloring. In this paper, the mechanisms on miRNA regulation of plant coloring are mainly reviewed from three aspects: macroscopic physiological and molecular foundations related to tissue coloring, miRNA biosynthesis and function, and specific analysis of miRNA regulation studies on leaf color, flower color, fruit color, and other tissue color formation in plants. Furthermore, we also systematically summarize the miRNA regulatory mechanisms identified on pigments biosynthesis and color formation in plants, and the regulatory mechanisms of these miRNAs mentioned on the existing researches can be divided into four main categories: directly targeting the related transcription factors, directly targeting the related structural genes, directly targeting the related long noncoding RNAs (LncRNAs) and miRNA-mediated production of trans-acting small interfering RNAs (ta-siRNAs). Together, these research results aim to provide a theoretical reference for the in-depth study of plant coloring mechanism and molecular breeding study of related plants in the future.
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