MicroRNA Advances and Application in Plant Biology presents a broad range of tools and techniques used for microRNA identification and utilization for diversity analysis in plants, crop improvement, and gene regulation. With expert insights, this book addresses those concepts through curated chapters that are well-illustrated with informative data, tables, figures, and photographs. While biological microRNA database resources have been created for the better understanding of structural and functional properties of primary-microRNAs (pri-microRNAs) to mature microRNAs, there remains a need for foundation understanding of how microRNAs may play a very crucial role in a plant lifecycle as an regulatory and stress tolerance molecule. There are still many unanswered questions about the structural and functional properties of the microRNAs, like the role of microRNA in crop improvement, gene regulation, stress tolerance, disease resistance plant, plant communication, and environmental interaction.
Table of Contents
1. Plant microRNAs: An overview: What are microRNAs, their origin, and their function in plants?2. Genetic modification of plants using microRNAs
3. Plant Development: What Role Do MicroRNAs Play?
4. Root architecture and microRNAs: A key role for microRNAs
5. Tolerance-enhancing microRNA: a new target for plants:
6. Regulatory role of Micro RNA in plants during development with respect to Root and shoot architecture and secondary growth
7. Homeostasis in plant micro RNAs
8. microRNAs tools for gene silencing
9. microRNAs tools for horticulture crops
10. microRNAs in monocot plants like Rice, Wheat, and Sugarcane
11. microRNAs in Dicot plants like Arabidopsis
12. microRNAs in legumes and symbiotic association with rhizobacteria
13. Artificial microRNAs in Plants
14. microRNAs in unicellular organisms a comparative analysis
15. MicroRNA databases and bioinformatics analysis