Open AccessSlice and Dice: DCL2 Mediates the Production of 22-Nucleotide siRNAs that Influence Trait Variation in Soybean
Author(s) -
Matthias Benoit
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.20.00884
Subject(s) - biology , dice , trait , variation (astronomy) , nucleotide , genetics , gene , statistics , programming language , physics , mathematics , astrophysics , computer science
In plants, small-interfering RNAs (siRNAs) serve as key regulators of gene expression. Although 24-nucleotide siRNAs are produced by DCL3 and mediate transcriptional silencing of transposons and pericentromeric chromatin through RNA-directed DNA methylation ([Borges and Martienssen, 2015][1]), 22-
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