Abiotic stress-associated microRNAs in plants: discovery, expression analysis, and evolution

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Front Biol

2013, Vol. 8

Issue (2) : 189-197 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11515-012-1210-6

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Abiotic stress-associated microRNAs in plants: discovery, expression analysis, and evolution

Blanca E. BARRERA-FIGUEROA¹, Zhigang WU², Renyi LIU²(

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1. Departamento de Biotecnologia, Universidad del Papaloapan, Tuxtepec, Oaxaca 68301, Mexico; 2. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

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Abstract

Abiotic stresses such as drought, cold, and high salinity are among the most adverse factors that affect plant growth and yield in the field. MicroRNAs are small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression in a sequence-specific manner and play an important role in plant stress response. Identifying abiotic stress-associated microRNAs and understanding their function will help develop new strategies for improvement of plant stress tolerance. Here we highlight recent advances in our understanding of abiotic stress-associated miRNAs in various plants, with focus on their discovery, expression analysis, and evolution.

Keywords microRNA abiotic stress epigenetics gene expression evolution

Corresponding Author(s): LIU Renyi,Email:renyi.liu@ucr.edu

Issue Date: 01 April 2013

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Blanca E. BARRERA-FIGUEROA,Zhigang WU,Renyi LIU. Abiotic stress-associated microRNAs in plants: discovery, expression analysis, and evolution[J]. Front Biol, 2013, 8(2): 189-197.

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Fig.1 Functional diversification of drought-associated miRNAs. Six plants have been subject to genome-wide surveys for drought-associated miRNAs and only conserved miRNAs that were regulated by drought in at least one plant were shown. Only conserved miRNAs shown in Figure 1 of Cuperus et al. () were considered. Boxes were colored according to range of conservation. The absence of a miRNA in a species was denoted with white color and presence was denoted with other colors. Up- and down-arrows in the boxes indicate whether miRNAs were up- or down-regulated by drought stress. Two arrows in a single box means the expression of the same miRNA family changed in different directions under drought stress in the same species from two or more independent studies.

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