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HEREDITAS(Beijing) ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 344-359.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.14-432

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Long non-coding RNAs in plants

Xiaoqing Huang,Dandan Li,Juan Wu   

  1. Key Laboratory of Saline-Alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field of Ministry of Education, Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
  • Received:2014-12-04 Online:2015-04-20 Published:2015-03-03

Abstract: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), which are longer than 200 nucleotides in length, widely exist in organisms and function in a variety of biological processes. Currently, most of lncRNAs found in plants are transcribed by RNA polymerase Ⅱ and mediate gene expression through multiple mechanisms, such as target mimicry, transcription interference, histone methylation and DNA methylation, and play important roles in flowering, male sterility, nutrition metabolism, biotic and abiotic stress and other biological processes as regulators in plants. In this review, we summarize the databases, prediction methods, and possible functions of plant lncRNAs discovered in recent years.

Key words: long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), database, gene expression regulation, biological function