of biological processes in mammals and plants. However, the systematic examination of
lncRNAs in plants lags behind that in mammals. Recently, lncRNAs have been identified in
Arabidopsis and wheat; however, no systematic screening of potential lncRNAs has been
reported for the rice genome. Results In this study, we perform whole transcriptome strand-
specific RNA sequencing (ssRNA-seq) of samples from rice anthers, pistils, and seeds 5 …