Rice functional genomics: decades' efforts and roads ahead

R Chen, Y Deng, Y Ding, J Guo, J Qiu, B Wang… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Plant and animal small RNA communications between cells and organisms

X Chen, O Rechavi - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Since the discovery of eukaryotic small RNAs as the main effectors of RNA interference in
the late 1990s, diverse types of endogenous small RNAs have been characterized, most …

Global identification of Arabidopsis lncRNAs reveals the regulation of MAF4 by a natural antisense RNA

X Zhao, J Li, B Lian, H Gu, Y Li, Y Qi - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important regulators of gene
expression and plant development. Here, we identified 6,510 lncRNAs in Arabidopsis under …

Male sterility and fertility restoration in crops

L Chen, YG Liu - Annual review of plant biology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
In plants, male sterility can be caused either by mitochondrial genes with coupled nuclear
genes or by nuclear genes alone; the resulting conditions are known as cytoplasmic male …

Next-generation phenotyping: requirements and strategies for enhancing our understanding of genotype–phenotype relationships and its relevance to crop …

JN Cobb, G DeClerck, A Greenberg, R Clark… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2013 - Springer
More accurate and precise phenotyping strategies are necessary to empower high-
resolution linkage mapping and genome-wide association studies and for training genomic …

Molecular control of male fertility for crop hybrid breeding

YJ Kim, D Zhang - Trends in Plant Science, 2018 - cell.com
In many plant species, male-sterile female lines with cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) or
nuclear-controlled environment-sensitive genic male sterility (EGMS) have long been used …

Development of Commercial Thermo-sensitive Genic Male Sterile Rice Accelerates Hybrid Rice Breeding Using the CRISPR/Cas9-mediated TMS5 Editing System

H Zhou, M He, J Li, L Chen, Z Huang, S Zheng, L Zhu… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Hybrid rice breeding offers an important strategy to improve rice production, in which the
cultivation of a male sterile line is the key to the success of cross-breeding. CRISPR/Cas9 …

PhasiRNAs in plants: their biogenesis, genic sources, and roles in stress responses, development, and reproduction

Y Liu, C Teng, R Xia, BC Meyers - Plant Cell, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Phased secondary small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs) constitute a major category of small
RNAs in plants, but most of their functions are still poorly defined. Some phasiRNAs, known …

Phased, secondary, small interfering RNAs in posttranscriptional regulatory networks

Q Fei, R Xia, BC Meyers - The Plant Cell, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Plant genomes are the source of large numbers of small RNAs, generated via a variety of
genetically separable pathways. Several of these pathways converge in the production of …

PMS1T, producing phased small-interfering RNAs, regulates photoperiod-sensitive male sterility in rice

Y Fan, J Yang, SM Mathioni, J Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Phased small-interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs) are a special class of small RNAs, which are
generated in 21-or 24-nt intervals from transcripts of precursor RNAs. Although phasiRNAs …