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microRNAs in Plant Embryogenesis

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Plant microRNAs

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In higher plants, the development of a mature embryo from the zygote follows a synchronized sequence of cell division, growth and differentiation events ultimately regulated by a highly coordinated gene expression. Several genome-wide expression studies during embryogenesis in Arabidopsis have been reported, including high-resolution single-cell directed, but current knowledge is mainly based on the coding transcriptome. Despite the available state-of-the-art technologies for transcriptome sequencing, there is still a gap in our understanding of the complex regulatory networks involving small non-coding RNAs. While a few microRNAs of specific conserved families have been functionally characterized, the role played by a major part of the microRNA population during the plant life cycle, including embryo development, in both model and non-model plants are yet to be discovered. In this chapter, we review the current knowledge of the gene expression regulation of plant embryogenesis by microRNAs, and discuss future perspectives for advancing our knowledge on plant embryo development in the light of the latest discoveries in this area.

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We acknowledge the funding support provided by Fundaçãopara a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), through grants UID/Multi/04046/2013 to BioISI (Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute)] and GREEN-it (UID/Multi/04551/2013), and the doctoral fellowships SFRH/BD/79779/2011 (to ASR) and SFRH/BD/128827/2017 (to AA).

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Alves, A., Rodrigues, A.S., Miguel, C. (2020). microRNAs in Plant Embryogenesis. In: Miguel, C., Dalmay, T., Chaves, I. (eds) Plant microRNAs. Concepts and Strategies in Plant Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35772-6_6

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