title: A miRacle in plant development: role of microRNAs in cell differentiation and patterning.
abstract: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small regulatory RNAs, which control gene expression in eukaryotes. In plants they repress mRNA targets containing a highly complementary site, either by cleavage or translational repression. Studies of individual miRNA/target interactions highlight the involvement of the miRNA-based regulations in a broad range of developmental programs, throughout plant lifecycle. MicroRNAs can have distinct regulatory functions on their targets: some determine their spatial accumulation, some have a buffering role that ensures the robustness of their expression pattern, and finally others establish the temporal expression of targeted genes.
authors: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, UPR2357, France. Damien.Garcia@ibmp-ulp.u-strasbg.fr
authors: Damien
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authors: Garcia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009154:Mutation; D063245:Plant Development; D010944:Plants / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs