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 …

A Phytophthora effector suppresses trans-kingdom RNAi to promote disease susceptibility

Y Hou, YI Zhai, LI Feng, HZ Karimi, BD Rutter, L Zeng… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
RNA silencing (RNAi) has a well-established role in anti-viral immunity in plants. The
destructive eukaryotic pathogen Phytophthora encodes suppressors of RNAi (PSRs), which …

Plant E3 ligases: flexible enzymes in a sessile world

L Chen, H Hellmann - Molecular Plant, 2013 - cell.com
Since its discovery in the late 1970s, the ubiquitin proteasome pathway appears to be
omnipresent in many research fields. Although originally discovered in animals, the pathway …

Plant dicer-like proteins: double-stranded RNA-cleaving enzymes for small RNA biogenesis

A Fukudome, T Fukuhara - Journal of Plant Research, 2017 - Springer
Dicer, a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-specific endoribonuclease, plays an essential role
in triggering both transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing in eukaryotes by …

Temperature-dependent survival of Turnip crinkle virus-infected arabidopsis plants relies on an RNA silencing-based defense that requires dcl2, AGO2, and HEN1

X Zhang, X Zhang, J Singh, D Li, F Qu - Journal of virology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
While RNA silencing is a potent antiviral defense in plants, well-adapted plant viruses are
known to encode suppressors of RNA silencing (VSR) that can neutralize the effectiveness …

Genome-wide identification of Dicer-like, Argonaute and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene families and their expression analyses in response to viral infection …

M Bai, GS Yang, WT Chen, ZC Mao, HX Kang… - Gene, 2012 - Elsevier
Dicer, Argonaute and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase form the core components to trigger
RNA silencing. Although tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a dicotyledon model plant, no …

A glimpse of “Dicer Biology” through the structural and functional perspective

S Paturi, MV Deshmukh - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The RNA interference pathway (RNAi) is executed by two core enzymes, Dicer and
Argonaute, for accomplishing a tailored transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene …

Recent advances in small RNA mediated plant-virus interactions

A Prasad, N Sharma, M Muthamilarasan… - Critical reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Small RNAs (sRNA) are reported to play pivotal roles in the epigenetic and post-
transcriptional regulation of gene expression during growth, development, and stress …

Distinct effects of p19 RNA silencing suppressor on small RNA mediated pathways in plants

L Kontra, T Csorba, M Tavazza, A Lucioli… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
RNA silencing is one of the main defense mechanisms employed by plants to fight viruses.
In change, viruses have evolved silencing suppressor proteins to neutralize antiviral …