Function of Non-coding RNA in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2022) | Viewed by 4978
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fruit physiology; fruit molecular biology; postharvest
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: molecular biology; genomics; transcriptomics; gene expression; plant biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The discovery and study of non-coding RNA genetic elements is an emerging field in plants. Non-coding RNA genes are transcribed into RNA but not translated because they do not code for a protein. They can show a constitutive expression, such as tRNA and rRNA, or play a regulatory role in the cell. Noncoding RNAs playing a regulatory role are divided into small non-coding RNA (e.g., miRNA, siRNA and piRNA) and long non-coding RNA. Long non-coding RNA genes can be located within introns, intergenic regions as well as in the antisense DNA strand. Although they have the same structural features of the protein-coding genes, they do not share the same sequence, and it seems that rather the secondary structure is conserved. Furthermore, non-coding RNAs can play a role in regulating eukaryotic gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels to control several phenomena in plants. In this regard, it had been found that they can regulate flowering, root and leaf development, cuticle biosynthesis, cell wall synthesis, seed germination, response to biotic and abiotic stress, fruit development and ripening, and potentially fruit shelf life. Although most of the physiological roles mentioned had been found in plant vegetative tissue, it is known that the knowledge developed studying plant tissues usually is found to be similar in fruits tissues. In this Special Issue, the experimental evidence generated to determine the role of these genetic elements in fruit physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology is presented.
Prof. Dr. Martín-Ernesto Tiznado-Hernández
Dr. Miguel Ángel Hernández-Oñate
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genes
- regulation
- non-coding RNA
- fruits
- RNA-seq
- physiology
- molecular biology
- biochemistry
