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Pre-meiotic 21-nucleotide reproductive phasiRNAs emerged in seed plants and diversified in flowering plants

Pokhrel, S, Huang, K, Bélanger, S, Zhan, J, Caplan, JL, Kramer, EM et al.
Nat Commun. 2021;12 (1):4941. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25128-y 

Abstract
Plant small RNAs are important regulatory elements that fine-tune gene expression and maintain genome integrity by silencing transposons. Reproductive organs of monocots produce abundant phased, small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs). The 21-nt reproductive phasiRNAs triggered by miR2118 are highly enriched in pre-meiotic anthers, and have been found in multiple eudicot species, in contrast with prior reports of monocot specificity. The 24-nt reproductive phasiRNAs are triggered by miR2275, and are highly enriched during meiosis in many angiosperms. Here, we report the widespread presence of the 21-nt reproductive phasiRNA pathway in eudicots including canonical and non-canonical microRNA (miRNA) triggers of this pathway. In eudicots, these 21-nt phasiRNAs are enriched in pre-meiotic stages, a spatiotemporal distribution consistent with that of monocots and suggesting a role in anther development. Although this pathway is apparently absent in well-studied eudicot families including the Brassicaceae, Solanaceae and Fabaceae, our work in eudicots supports an earlier singular finding in spruce, a gymnosperm, indicating that the pathway of 21-nt reproductive phasiRNAs emerged in seed plants and was lost in some lineages.

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Transgenerational conditioned male fertility of HD-ZIP IV transcription factor mutant ocl4: impact on 21-nt phasiRNA accumulation in pre-meiotic maize anthers

Yadava, P, Tamim, S, Zhang, H, Teng, C, Zhou, X, Meyers, BC et al.
Plant Reprod. 2021;34 (2):117-129. doi: 10.1007/s00497-021-00406-3

Abstract
Environment-sensitive male-sterile plants have been described before and can result from different molecular mechanisms and biological processes, but putative environment-conditioned, transgenerational rescue of their male fertility is a rather new mystery. Here, we report a derivative line of the male-sterile outer cell layer 4 (ocl4) mutant of maize, in which fertility was restored and perpetuated over several generations. Conditioned fertile ocl4 anthers exhibit the anatomical abnormality of a partially duplicated endothecial layer, just like their sterile counterparts. We profiled the dynamics of phased, small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs) during pre-meiotic development in fully sterile and various grades of semi-fertile ocl4 anthers. The conditioned fertile anthers accumulated significantly higher 21-nt phasiRNAs compared to ocl4 sterile samples, suggesting a partial restoration of phasiRNAs in conditioned fertility. We found that the biogenesis of 21-nt phasiRNAs is largely dependent on Ocl4 at three key steps: (1) production of PHAS precursor transcripts, (2) expression of miR2118 that modulates precursor processing, and (3) accumulation of 21-nt phasiRNAs.

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Space: the final frontier - achieving single-cell, spatially resolved transcriptomics in plants

Gurazada, SGR, Cox, KL, Czymmek, KJ, Meyers, BC
Emerg Top Life Sci. 2021;5 (2):179-188. doi: 10.1042/ETLS20200274 

Abstract
Single-cell RNA-seq is a tool that generates a high resolution of transcriptional data that can be used to understand regulatory networks in biological systems. In plants, several methods have been established for transcriptional analysis in tissue sections, cell types, and/or single cells. These methods typically require cell sorting, transgenic plants, protoplasting, or other damaging or laborious processes. Additionally, the majority of these technologies lose most or all spatial resolution during implementation. Those that offer a high spatial resolution for RNA lack breadth in the number of transcripts characterized. Here, we briefly review the evolution of spatial transcriptomics methods and we highlight recent advances and current challenges in sequencing, imaging, and computational aspects toward achieving 3D spatial transcriptomics of plant tissues with a resolution approaching single cells. We also provide a perspective on the potential opportunities to advance this novel methodology in plants.

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Reproductive phasiRNA loci and DICER-LIKE5, but not microRNA loci, diversified in monocotyledonous plants

Patel, P, Mathioni, SM, Hammond, R, Harkess, AE, Kakrana, A, Arikit, S et al.
Plant Physiol. 2021;185 (4):1764-1782. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab001 

Abstract
In monocots other than maize (Zea mays) and rice (Oryza sativa), the repertoire and diversity of microRNAs (miRNAs) and the populations of phased, secondary, small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs) are poorly characterized. To remedy this, we sequenced small RNAs (sRNA) from vegetative and dissected inflorescence tissue in 28 phylogenetically diverse monocots and from several early-diverging angiosperm lineages, as well as publicly available data from 10 additional monocot species. We annotated miRNAs, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and phasiRNAs across the monocot phylogeny, identifying miRNAs apparently lost or gained in the grasses relative to other monocot families, as well as a number of transfer RNA fragments misannotated as miRNAs. Using our miRNA database cleaned of these misannotations, we identified conservation at the 8th, 9th, 19th, and 3′-end positions that we hypothesize are signatures of selection for processing, targeting, or Argonaute sorting. We show that 21-nucleotide (nt) reproductive phasiRNAs are far more numerous in grass genomes than other monocots. Based on sequenced monocot genomes and transcriptomes, DICER-LIKE5, important to 24-nt phasiRNA biogenesis, likely originated via gene duplication before the diversification of the grasses. This curated database of phylogenetically diverse monocot miRNAs, siRNAs, and phasiRNAs represents a large collection of data that should facilitate continued exploration of sRNA diversification in flowering plants.

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100 Most Recent Publications

Chatterjee, D, Zhang, Z, Lin, PY, Wang, PH, Sidhu, GK, Yennawar, NH et al.. Maize unstable factor for orange1 encodes a nuclear protein that affects redox accumulation during kernel development. Plant Cell. 2024; :. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae301. PubMed PMID:39589935 .

Bélanger, S, Zhan, J, Yu, Y, Meyers, BC. Comparative RNA profiling identifies stage-specific phasiRNAs and coexpressed Argonaute genes in Bambusoideae and Pooideae species. Plant Cell. 2024; :. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae308. PubMed PMID:39556763 .

Han, Y, Jiang, S, Dong, X, Dai, X, Wang, S, Zheng, Y et al.. Ribosome binding of phasiRNA precursors accelerates the 24-nt phasiRNA burst in meiotic maize anthers. Plant Cell. 2024; :. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae289. PubMed PMID:39442012 .

Quatrano, RS, Jorgensen, RA, Martin, C, Merchant, SS, Meyers, BC. Turning the page on front matter: Wishing Nan Eckardt a joyful retirement. Plant Cell. 2024;36 (11):4673-4674. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae241. PubMed PMID:39320382 PubMed Central PMC11530766.

Zhan, J, Bélanger, S, Lewis, S, Teng, C, McGregor, M, Beric, A et al.. Premeiotic 24-nt phasiRNAs are present in the Zea genus and unique in biogenesis mechanism and molecular function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024;121 (21):e2402285121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2402285121. PubMed PMID:38739785 PubMed Central PMC11127045.

Wang, W, Duan, J, Wang, X, Feng, X, Chen, L, Clark, CB et al.. Long noncoding RNAs underlie multiple domestication traits and leafhopper resistance in soybean. Nat Genet. 2024;56 (6):1270-1277. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01738-2. PubMed PMID:38684899 .

Zhan, J, Bélanger, S, Lewis, S, Teng, C, McGregor, M, Beric, A et al.. Premeiotic 24-nt phasiRNAs are present in the Zea genus and unique in biogenesis mechanism and molecular function. bioRxiv. 2024; :. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.29.587306. PubMed PMID:38617318 PubMed Central PMC11014486.

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC, Zhao, Y. Celebrating the American Society of Plant Biologists centennial anniversary: A compendium of review articles in plant biology. Plant Physiol. 2024;195 (1):1-3. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiae141. PubMed PMID:38547371 PubMed Central PMC11060676.

Huang, K, Meyers, BC, Caplan, JL. Fluorescent In Situ Detection of Small RNAs in Plants Using sRNA-FISH. Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2784 :101-111. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3766-1_7. PubMed PMID:38502481 .

Cherubino Ribeiro, TH, Baldrich, P, de Oliveira, RR, Fernandes-Brum, CN, Mathioni, SM, de Sousa Cardoso, TC et al.. The floral development of the allotetraploid Coffea arabica L. correlates with a small RNA dynamic reprogramming. Plant J. 2024;118 (6):1848-1863. doi: 10.1111/tpj.16713. PubMed PMID:38488203 .

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC, Zhao, Y. Celebrating the American Society of Plant Biologists centennial anniversary: A compendium of review articles in plant biology. Plant Cell. 2024;36 (5):1183-1185. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae076. PubMed PMID:38466716 PubMed Central PMC11062421.

Zhou, L, Mao, YC, Yang, YM, Wang, JJ, Zhong, X, Han, Y et al.. Temperature and light reverse the fertility of rice P/TGMS line ostms19 via reactive oxygen species homeostasis. Plant Biotechnol J. 2024;22 (7):2020-2032. doi: 10.1111/pbi.14322. PubMed PMID:38421616 PubMed Central PMC11182586.

Blagojevic, A, Baldrich, P, Schiaffini, M, Lechner, E, Baumberger, N, Hammann, P et al.. Heat stress promotes Arabidopsis AGO1 phase separation and association with stress granule components. iScience. 2024;27 (3):109151. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109151. PubMed PMID:38384836 PubMed Central PMC10879784.

Li, G, Chen, C, Chen, P, Meyers, BC, Xia, R. sRNAminer: A multifunctional toolkit for next-generation sequencing small RNA data mining in plants. Sci Bull (Beijing). 2024;69 (6):784-791. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.12.049. PubMed PMID:38246798 .

Harkess, A, Bewick, AJ, Lu, Z, Fourounjian, P, Michael, TP, Schmitz, RJ et al.. The unusual predominance of maintenance DNA methylation in Spirodela polyrhiza. G3 (Bethesda). 2024;14 (4):. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae004. PubMed PMID:38190722 PubMed Central PMC10989885.

Shi, C, Zou, W, Zhu, Y, Zhang, J, Teng, C, Wei, H et al.. mRNA cleavage by 21-nucleotide phasiRNAs determines temperature-sensitive male sterility in rice. Plant Physiol. 2024;194 (4):2354-2371. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiad654. PubMed PMID:38060676 .

Szeluga, N, Baldrich, P, DelPercio, R, Meyers, BC, Frank, MH. Introduction of barnase/barstar in soybean produces a rescuable male sterility system for hybrid breeding. Plant Biotechnol J. 2023;21 (12):2585-2596. doi: 10.1111/pbi.14155. PubMed PMID:37596734 PubMed Central PMC10651147.

Ma, H, Feng, Y, Cao, Q, Jia, J, Ali, M, Shah, D et al.. Evolution of antimicrobial cysteine-rich peptides in plants. Plant Cell Rep. 2023;42 (9):1517-1527. doi: 10.1007/s00299-023-03044-3. PubMed PMID:37378705 .

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC. The Plant Cell is accepting applications for assistant features editors for 2024. Plant Cell. 2023;35 (9):3383. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koad171. PubMed PMID:37343133 PubMed Central PMC10473185.

Bélanger, S, Kramer, MC, Payne, HA, Hui, AY, Slotkin, RK, Meyers, BC et al.. Plastid dsRNA transgenes trigger phased small RNA-based gene silencing of nuclear-encoded genes. Plant Cell. 2023;35 (9):3398-3412. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koad165. PubMed PMID:37309669 PubMed Central PMC10473229.

Eckardt, NA, Axtell, MJ, Barta, A, Chen, X, Gregory, BD, Guo, H et al.. Focus on RNA biology. Plant Cell. 2023;35 (6):1617-1618. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koad082. PubMed PMID:36943779 PubMed Central PMC10226590.

Bélanger, S, Zhan, J, Meyers, BC. Phylogenetic analyses of seven protein families refine the evolution of small RNA pathways in green plants. Plant Physiol. 2023;192 (2):1183-1203. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiad141. PubMed PMID:36869858 PubMed Central PMC10231463.

Zhan, J, Meyers, BC. Plant Small RNAs: Their Biogenesis, Regulatory Roles, and Functions. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 2023;74 :21-51. doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-070122-035226. PubMed PMID:36854480 .

Pannak, S, Wanchana, S, Aesomnuk, W, Pitaloka, MK, Jamboonsri, W, Siangliw, M et al.. Functional Bph14 from Rathu Heenati promotes resistance to BPH at the early seedling stage of rice (Oryza sativa L.) as revealed by QTL-seq. Theor Appl Genet. 2023;136 (2):25. doi: 10.1007/s00122-023-04318-w. PubMed PMID:36781491 .

Baldrich, P, Liu, A, Meyers, BC, Fondong, VN. An atlas of small RNAs from potato. Plant Direct. 2022;6 (12):e466. doi: 10.1002/pld3.466. PubMed PMID:36530592 PubMed Central PMC9751654.

Zhan, J, O'Connor, L, Marchant, DB, Teng, C, Walbot, V, Meyers, BC et al.. Coexpression network and trans-activation analyses of maize reproductive phasiRNA loci. Plant J. 2023;113 (1):160-173. doi: 10.1111/tpj.16045. PubMed PMID:36440497 .

Hammond, RK, Gupta, P, Patel, P, Meyers, BC. miRador: a fast and precise tool for the prediction of plant miRNAs. Plant Physiol. 2023;191 (2):894-903. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac538. PubMed PMID:36437740 PubMed Central PMC9922418.

Meyers, BC, McLellan, SL. Influence of Nutrients and the Native Community on E. coli Survival in the Beach Environment. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2022;88 (21):e0104322. doi: 10.1128/aem.01043-22. PubMed PMID:36218359 PubMed Central PMC9642020.

Cox, KL Jr, Manchego, J, Meyers, BC, Czymmek, KJ, Harkess, A. Automated imaging of duckweed growth and development. Plant Direct. 2022;6 (9):e439. doi: 10.1002/pld3.439. PubMed PMID:36186894 PubMed Central PMC9510441.

Shi, C, Zhang, J, Wu, B, Jouni, R, Yu, C, Meyers, BC et al.. Temperature-sensitive male sterility in rice determined by the roles of AGO1d in reproductive phasiRNA biogenesis and function. New Phytol. 2022;236 (4):1529-1544. doi: 10.1111/nph.18446. PubMed PMID:36031742 .

Bélanger, S, Berensmann, H, Baena, V, Duncan, K, Meyers, BC, Narayan, K et al.. A versatile enhanced freeze-substitution protocol for volume electron microscopy. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022;10 :933376. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.933376. PubMed PMID:36003147 PubMed Central PMC9393620.

Meyers, BC. Behind the scenes at The Plant Cell: The process from prereview consultation to an editorial decision. Plant Cell. 2022;34 (11):4117-4119. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac233. PubMed PMID:35904772 PubMed Central PMC9614511.

Baldrich, P, Bélanger, S, Kong, S, Pokhrel, S, Tamim, S, Teng, C et al.. The evolutionary history of small RNAs in Solanaceae. Plant Physiol. 2022;189 (2):644-665. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac089. PubMed PMID:35642548 PubMed Central PMC9157080.

Eckardt, NA, Birchler, JA, Meyers, BC. Focus on plant genetics: Celebrating Gregor Mendel's 200th birth anniversary. Plant Cell. 2022;34 (7):2453-2454. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac123. PubMed PMID:35478254 PubMed Central PMC9252500.

Zhou, X, Huang, K, Teng, C, Abdelgawad, A, Batish, M, Meyers, BC et al.. 24-nt phasiRNAs move from tapetal to meiotic cells in maize anthers. New Phytol. 2022;235 (2):488-501. doi: 10.1111/nph.18167. PubMed PMID:35451503 .

Hacquard, T, Clavel, M, Baldrich, P, Lechner, E, Pérez-Salamó, I, Schepetilnikov, M et al.. The Arabidopsis F-box protein FBW2 targets AGO1 for degradation to prevent spurious loading of illegitimate small RNA. Cell Rep. 2022;39 (2):110671. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110671. PubMed PMID:35417704 PubMed Central PMC9035678.

Pokhrel, S, Meyers, BC. Heat-responsive microRNAs and phased small interfering RNAs in reproductive development of flax. Plant Direct. 2022;6 (2):e385. doi: 10.1002/pld3.385. PubMed PMID:35224420 PubMed Central PMC8845017.

Zand Karimi, H, Baldrich, P, Rutter, BD, Borniego, L, Zajt, KK, Meyers, BC et al.. Arabidopsis apoplastic fluid contains sRNA- and circular RNA-protein complexes that are located outside extracellular vesicles. Plant Cell. 2022;34 (5):1863-1881. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac043. PubMed PMID:35171271 PubMed Central PMC9048913.

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC. Erratum to: The Plant Cell welcomes 2021 Assistant Features Editors. Plant Cell. 2022;34 (5):2096-2097. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab301. PubMed PMID:35020943 PubMed Central PMC9048869.

Nan, GL, Teng, C, Fernandes, J, O'Connor, L, Meyers, BC, Walbot, V et al.. A cascade of bHLH-regulated pathways programs maize anther development. Plant Cell. 2022;34 (4):1207-1225. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac007. PubMed PMID:35018475 PubMed Central PMC8972316.

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC. The Plant Cell welcomes 2022 Assistant Features Editors. Plant Cell. 2022;34 (2):703-705. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab296. PubMed PMID:34865156 PubMed Central PMC8824609.

Cox, KL Jr, Gurazada, SGR, Duncan, KE, Czymmek, KJ, Topp, CN, Meyers, BC et al.. Organizing your space: The potential for integrating spatial transcriptomics and 3D imaging data in plants. Plant Physiol. 2022;188 (2):703-712. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab508. PubMed PMID:34726737 PubMed Central PMC8825300.

Seetharam, AS, Yu, Y, Bélanger, S, Clark, LG, Meyers, BC, Kellogg, EA et al.. The Streptochaeta Genome and the Evolution of the Grasses. Front Plant Sci. 2021;12 :710383. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.710383. PubMed PMID:34671369 PubMed Central PMC8521107.

Baldrich, P, Chaya, T, Caplan, JL, Meyers, BC. Genome Assembly and Transcriptome of Colletotrichum sublineola CsGL1, a New Resource to Study Anthracnose Disease in Sorghum. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2021;34 (10):1209-1211. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-04-21-0094-A. PubMed PMID:34662144 .

Schmitz, RJ, Marand, AP, Zhang, X, Mosher, RA, Turck, F, Chen, X et al.. Quality control and evaluation of plant epigenomics data. Plant Cell. 2022;34 (1):503-513. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab255. PubMed PMID:34648025 PubMed Central PMC8773985.

Huang, K, Demirci, F, Meyers, BC, Caplan, JL. A Novel Method to Map Small RNAs with High Resolution. Bio Protoc. 2021;11 (16):e4128. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4128. PubMed PMID:34541046 PubMed Central PMC8413618.

Wang, L, Zhu, T, Rodriguez, JC, Deal, KR, Dubcovsky, J, McGuire, PE et al.. Aegilops tauschii genome assembly Aet v5.0 features greater sequence contiguity and improved annotation. G3 (Bethesda). 2021;11 (12):. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab325. PubMed PMID:34515796 PubMed Central PMC8664484.

Pokhrel, S, Huang, K, Bélanger, S, Zhan, J, Caplan, JL, Kramer, EM et al.. Pre-meiotic 21-nucleotide reproductive phasiRNAs emerged in seed plants and diversified in flowering plants. Nat Commun. 2021;12 (1):4941. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25128-y. PubMed PMID:34400639 PubMed Central PMC8368212.

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC. The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors. Plant Cell. 2021;33 (9):2901. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab185. PubMed PMID:34312677 PubMed Central PMC8462823.

Pokhrel, S, Huang, K, Meyers, BC. Conserved and non-conserved triggers of 24-nucleotide reproductive phasiRNAs in eudicots. Plant J. 2021;107 (5):1332-1345. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15382. PubMed PMID:34160111 .

Beric, A, Mabry, ME, Harkess, AE, Brose, J, Schranz, ME, Conant, GC et al.. Comparative phylogenetics of repetitive elements in a diverse order of flowering plants (Brassicales). G3 (Bethesda). 2021;11 (7):. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab140. PubMed PMID:33993297 PubMed Central PMC8495927.

Chatterjee, D, Wittmeyer, K, Lee, TF, Cui, J, Yennawar, NH, Yennawar, HP et al.. Maize unstable factor for orange1 is essential for endosperm development and carbohydrate accumulation. Plant Physiol. 2021;186 (4):1932-1950. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab183. PubMed PMID:33905500 PubMed Central PMC8331166.

Veley, KM, Okwuonu, I, Jensen, G, Yoder, M, Taylor, NJ, Meyers, BC et al.. Gene tagging via CRISPR-mediated homology-directed repair in cassava. G3 (Bethesda). 2021;11 (4):. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab028. PubMed PMID:33855431 PubMed Central PMC8049417.

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC. Sowing the Seeds of Equity and Diversity in Academia and STEM Disciplines. Plant Cell. 2020;32 (11):3371. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00692. PubMed PMID:33814867 PubMed Central PMC7610288.

Patel, P, Mathioni, SM, Hammond, R, Harkess, AE, Kakrana, A, Arikit, S et al.. Reproductive phasiRNA loci and DICER-LIKE5, but not microRNA loci, diversified in monocotyledonous plants. Plant Physiol. 2021;185 (4):1764-1782. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab001. PubMed PMID:33793935 PubMed Central PMC8133688.

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC. The Plant Cell welcomes 2021 Assistant Features Editors. Plant Cell. 2021;33 (1):2. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koaa005. PubMed PMID:33751091 PubMed Central PMC8136908.

Yadava, P, Tamim, S, Zhang, H, Teng, C, Zhou, X, Meyers, BC et al.. Transgenerational conditioned male fertility of HD-ZIP IV transcription factor mutant ocl4: impact on 21-nt phasiRNA accumulation in pre-meiotic maize anthers. Plant Reprod. 2021;34 (2):117-129. doi: 10.1007/s00497-021-00406-3. PubMed PMID:33689028 .

Chen, C, Li, J, Feng, J, Liu, B, Feng, L, Yu, X et al.. sRNAanno-a database repository of uniformly annotated small RNAs in plants. Hortic Res. 2021;8 (1):45. doi: 10.1038/s41438-021-00480-8. PubMed PMID:33642576 PubMed Central PMC7917102.

Eckardt, NA, Birchler, JA, Brady, SM, Buell, CR, Leebens-Mack, JH, Meyers, BC et al.. Focus on the biology of plant genomes. Plant Cell. 2021;33 (4):781-782. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab039. PubMed PMID:33576423 PubMed Central PMC8227447.

Yu, Y, Ji, L, Le, BH, Zhai, J, Chen, J, Luscher, E et al.. Correction: ARGONAUTE10 promotes the degradation of miR165/6 through the SDN1 and SDN2 exonucleases in Arabidopsis. PLoS Biol. 2021;19 (2):e3001120. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001120. PubMed PMID:33571183 PubMed Central PMC7877630.

Gurazada, SGR, Cox, KL, Czymmek, KJ, Meyers, BC. Space: the final frontier - achieving single-cell, spatially resolved transcriptomics in plants. Emerg Top Life Sci. 2021;5 (2):179-188. doi: 10.1042/ETLS20200274. PubMed PMID:33522561 .

Harkess, A, McLoughlin, F, Bilkey, N, Elliott, K, Emenecker, R, Mattoon, E et al.. Improved Spirodela polyrhiza genome and proteomic analyses reveal a conserved chromosomal structure with high abundance of chloroplastic proteins favoring energy production. J Exp Bot. 2021;72 (7):2491-2500. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erab006. PubMed PMID:33454741 .

Lee, YS, Maple, R, Dürr, J, Dawson, A, Tamim, S, Del Genio, C et al.. A transposon surveillance mechanism that safeguards plant male fertility during stress. Nat Plants. 2021;7 (1):34-41. doi: 10.1038/s41477-020-00818-5. PubMed PMID:33398155 .

Escobar-Tovar, L, Sierra, J, Hernández-Muñoz, A, McQuinn, RP, Mathioni, S, Cordoba, E et al.. Deconvoluting apocarotenoid-mediated retrograde signaling networks regulating plastid translation and leaf development. Plant J. 2021;105 (6):1582-1599. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15134. PubMed PMID:33340183 .

Bélanger, S, Baldrich, P, Lemay, MA, Marchand, S, Esteves, P, Meyers, BC et al.. The commitment of barley microspores into embryogenesis correlates with miRNA-directed regulation of members of the SPL, GRF and HD-ZIPIII transcription factor families. Plant Direct. 2020;4 (12):e00289. doi: 10.1002/pld3.289. PubMed PMID:36406053 PubMed Central PMC9671080.

Zhang, M, Ma, X, Wang, C, Li, Q, Meyers, BC, Springer, NM et al.. CHH DNA methylation increases at 24-PHAS loci depend on 24-nt phased small interfering RNAs in maize meiotic anthers. New Phytol. 2021;229 (5):2984-2997. doi: 10.1111/nph.17060. PubMed PMID:33135165 .

Tian, P, Zhang, X, Xia, R, Liu, Y, Wang, M, Li, B et al.. Evolution and diversification of reproductive phased small interfering RNAs in Oryza species. New Phytol. 2021;229 (5):2970-2983. doi: 10.1111/nph.17035. PubMed PMID:33111313 .

Jia, J, Ji, R, Li, Z, Yu, Y, Nakano, M, Long, Y et al.. Soybean DICER-LIKE2 Regulates Seed Coat Color via Production of Primary 22-Nucleotide Small Interfering RNAs from Long Inverted Repeats. Plant Cell. 2020;32 (12):3662-3673. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00562. PubMed PMID:33077493 PubMed Central PMC7721327.

Jiang, N, Gutierrez-Diaz, A, Mukundi, E, Lee, YS, Meyers, BC, Otegui, MS et al.. Author Correction: Synergy between the anthocyanin and RDR6/SGS3/DCL4 siRNA pathways expose hidden features of Arabidopsis carbon metabolism. Nat Commun. 2020;11 (1):5276. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19223-9. PubMed PMID:33057182 PubMed Central PMC7560853.

Bélanger, S, Pokhrel, S, Czymmek, K, Meyers, BC. Premeiotic, 24-Nucleotide Reproductive PhasiRNAs Are Abundant in Anthers of Wheat and Barley But Not Rice and Maize. Plant Physiol. 2020;184 (3):1407-1423. doi: 10.1104/pp.20.00816. PubMed PMID:32917771 PubMed Central PMC7608162.

Ding, B, Xia, R, Lin, Q, Gurung, V, Sagawa, JM, Stanley, LE et al.. Developmental Genetics of Corolla Tube Formation: Role of the tasiRNA-ARF Pathway and a Conceptual Model. Plant Cell. 2020;32 (11):3452-3468. doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00471. PubMed PMID:32917737 PubMed Central PMC7610285.

Liu, Y, Teng, C, Xia, R, Meyers, BC. PhasiRNAs in Plants: Their Biogenesis, Genic Sources, and Roles in Stress Responses, Development, and Reproduction. Plant Cell. 2020;32 (10):3059-3080. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00335. PubMed PMID:32817252 PubMed Central PMC7534485.

Huang, K, Demirci, F, Batish, M, Treible, W, Meyers, BC, Caplan, JL et al.. Quantitative, super-resolution localization of small RNAs with sRNA-PAINT. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020;48 (16):e96. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa623. PubMed PMID:32716042 PubMed Central PMC7498346.

Huang, K, Batish, M, Teng, C, Harkess, A, Meyers, BC, Caplan, JL et al.. Quantitative Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Detection of Plant mRNAs with Single-Molecule Resolution. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2166 :23-33. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0712-1_2. PubMed PMID:32710401 .

Grover, JW, Burgess, D, Kendall, T, Baten, A, Pokhrel, S, King, GJ et al.. Abundant expression of maternal siRNAs is a conserved feature of seed development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117 (26):15305-15315. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001332117. PubMed PMID:32541052 PubMed Central PMC7334491.

Teng, C, Zhang, H, Hammond, R, Huang, K, Meyers, BC, Walbot, V et al.. Dicer-like 5 deficiency confers temperature-sensitive male sterility in maize. Nat Commun. 2020;11 (1):2912. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16634-6. PubMed PMID:32518237 PubMed Central PMC7283321.

Jiang, N, Gutierrez-Diaz, A, Mukundi, E, Lee, YS, Meyers, BC, Otegui, MS et al.. Synergy between the anthocyanin and RDR6/SGS3/DCL4 siRNA pathways expose hidden features of Arabidopsis carbon metabolism. Nat Commun. 2020;11 (1):2456. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16289-3. PubMed PMID:32415123 PubMed Central PMC7229025.

Harkess, A, Huang, K, van der Hulst, R, Tissen, B, Caplan, JL, Koppula, A et al.. Sex Determination by Two Y-Linked Genes in Garden Asparagus. Plant Cell. 2020;32 (6):1790-1796. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00859. PubMed PMID:32220850 PubMed Central PMC7268802.

Hossain, MS, Hoang, NT, Yan, Z, Tóth, K, Meyers, BC, Stacey, G et al.. Corrigendum: Characterization of the Spatial and Temporal Expression of Two Soybean miRNAs Identifies SCL6 as a Novel Regulator of Soybean Nodulation. Front Plant Sci. 2019;10 :1692. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01692. PubMed PMID:32117326 PubMed Central PMC7029589.

Debladis, E, Lee, TF, Huang, YJ, Lu, JH, Mathioni, SM, Carpentier, MC et al.. Construction and characterization of a knock-down RNA interference line of OsNRPD1 in rice (Oryza sativa ssp japonica cv Nipponbare). Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2020;375 (1795):20190338. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0338. PubMed PMID:32075556 PubMed Central PMC7061988.

Meyers, BC. New at the Helm of The Plant Cell, a Journal for the Plant Science Community[OPEN]. Plant Cell. 2020;32 (1):1-3. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00900. PubMed PMID:33792701 PubMed Central PMC6961624.

Feng, L, Zhang, F, Zhang, H, Zhao, Y, Meyers, BC, Zhai, J et al.. An Online Database for Exploring Over 2,000 Arabidopsis Small RNA Libraries. Plant Physiol. 2020;182 (2):685-691. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00959. PubMed PMID:31843802 PubMed Central PMC6997705.

Bi, H, Fei, Q, Li, R, Liu, B, Xia, R, Char, SN et al.. Disruption of miRNA sequences by TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 induces varied lengths of miRNA production. Plant Biotechnol J. 2020;18 (7):1526-1536. doi: 10.1111/pbi.13315. PubMed PMID:31821678 PubMed Central PMC7292542.

Eckardt, NA, Meyers, BC, Merchant, SS. The Plant Cell Is Accepting Applications for Assistant Features Editors. Plant Cell. 2019;31 (11):2545. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00787. PubMed PMID:33831150 PubMed Central PMC6881125.

Nakano, M, McCormick, K, Demirci, C, Demirci, F, Gurazada, SGR, Ramachandruni, D et al.. Next-Generation Sequence Databases: RNA and Genomic Informatics Resources for Plants. Plant Physiol. 2020;182 (1):136-146. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00957. PubMed PMID:31690707 PubMed Central PMC6945852.

Juárez-González, VT, López-Ruiz, BA, Baldrich, P, Luján-Soto, E, Meyers, BC, Dinkova, TD et al.. The explant developmental stage profoundly impacts small RNA-mediated regulation at the dedifferentiation step of maize somatic embryogenesis. Sci Rep. 2019;9 (1):14511. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50962-y. PubMed PMID:31601893 PubMed Central PMC6786999.

Crisp, PA, Hammond, R, Zhou, P, Vaillancourt, B, Lipzen, A, Daum, C et al.. Variation and Inheritance of Small RNAs in Maize Inbreds and F1 Hybrids. Plant Physiol. 2020;182 (1):318-331. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00817. PubMed PMID:31575624 PubMed Central PMC6945832.

Hunt, M, Banerjee, S, Surana, P, Liu, M, Fuerst, G, Mathioni, S et al.. Correction to: small RNA discovery in the interaction between barley and the powdery mildew pathogen. BMC Genomics. 2019;20 (1):697. doi: 10.1186/s12864-019-6012-7. PubMed PMID:31484492 PubMed Central PMC6727339.

Baldrich, P, Meyers, BC. Bacteria send messages to colonize plant roots. Science. 2019;365 (6456):868-869. doi: 10.1126/science.aay7101. PubMed PMID:31467211 .

Ji, L, Mathioni, SM, Johnson, S, Tucker, D, Bewick, AJ, Do Kim, K et al.. Genome-Wide Reinforcement of DNA Methylation Occurs during Somatic Embryogenesis in Soybean. Plant Cell. 2019;31 (10):2315-2331. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00255. PubMed PMID:31439802 PubMed Central PMC6790092.

Hunt, M, Banerjee, S, Surana, P, Liu, M, Fuerst, G, Mathioni, S et al.. Small RNA discovery in the interaction between barley and the powdery mildew pathogen. BMC Genomics. 2019;20 (1):610. doi: 10.1186/s12864-019-5947-z. PubMed PMID:31345162 PubMed Central PMC6657096.

Trolet, A, Baldrich, P, Criqui, MC, Dubois, M, Clavel, M, Meyers, BC et al.. Cell Cycle-Dependent Regulation and Function of ARGONAUTE1 in Plants. Plant Cell. 2019;31 (8):1734-1750. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00069. PubMed PMID:31189739 PubMed Central PMC6713298.

Hossain, MS, Hoang, NT, Yan, Z, Tóth, K, Meyers, BC, Stacey, G et al.. Characterization of the Spatial and Temporal Expression of Two Soybean miRNAs Identifies SCL6 as a Novel Regulator of Soybean Nodulation. Front Plant Sci. 2019;10 :475. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00475. PubMed PMID:31057581 PubMed Central PMC6477095.

Meyers, BC, Axtell, MJ. MicroRNAs in Plants: Key Findings from the Early Years. Plant Cell. 2019;31 (6):1206-1207. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00310. PubMed PMID:31036598 PubMed Central PMC6588298.

Fourounjian, P, Tang, J, Tanyolac, B, Feng, Y, Gelfand, B, Kakrana, A et al.. Post-transcriptional adaptation of the aquatic plant Spirodela polyrhiza under stress and hormonal stimuli. Plant J. 2019;98 (6):1120-1133. doi: 10.1111/tpj.14294. PubMed PMID:30801806 .

Xia, R, Chen, C, Pokhrel, S, Ma, W, Huang, K, Patel, P et al.. 24-nt reproductive phasiRNAs are broadly present in angiosperms. Nat Commun. 2019;10 (1):627. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08543-0. PubMed PMID:30733503 PubMed Central PMC6367383.

Baldrich, P, Rutter, BD, Karimi, HZ, Podicheti, R, Meyers, BC, Innes, RW et al.. Plant Extracellular Vesicles Contain Diverse Small RNA Species and Are Enriched in 10- to 17-Nucleotide "Tiny" RNAs. Plant Cell. 2019;31 (2):315-324. doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00872. PubMed PMID:30705133 PubMed Central PMC6447009.

Huang, K, Baldrich, P, Meyers, BC, Caplan, JL. sRNA-FISH: versatile fluorescent in situ detection of small RNAs in plants. Plant J. 2019;98 (2):359-369. doi: 10.1111/tpj.14210. PubMed PMID:30577085 PubMed Central PMC6465150.

Wittmeyer, K, Cui, J, Chatterjee, D, Lee, TF, Tan, Q, Xue, W et al.. The Dominant and Poorly Penetrant Phenotypes of Maize Unstable factor for orange1 Are Caused by DNA Methylation Changes at a Linked Transposon. Plant Cell. 2018;30 (12):3006-3023. doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00546. PubMed PMID:30563848 PubMed Central PMC6354275.

Moro, B, Chorostecki, U, Arikit, S, Suarez, IP, Höbartner, C, Rasia, RM et al.. Efficiency and precision of microRNA biogenesis modes in plants. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018;46 (20):10709-10723. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky853. PubMed PMID:30289546 PubMed Central PMC6237749.

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