title: Functions of plants long non-coding RNAs.
abstract: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been emerged as important players for various biological pathways, including dosage compensation, genomic imprinting, chromatin regulation, alternative splicing and nuclear organization. A large number of lncRNAs had already been identified by different approaches in plants, while the functions of only a few of them have been investigated. This review will summarize our current understanding of a wide range of plant lncRNAs functions, and highlight their roles in the regulation of diverse pathways in plants. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Clues to long noncoding RNA taxonomy1, edited by Dr. Tetsuro Hirose and Dr. Shinichi Nakagawa.
authors.affiliation: Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences and Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Sarfraz
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shafiq
authors.affiliation: Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences and Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Jingrui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences and Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: sunqianwen@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Qianwen
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing / Q000235:genetics*; D002467:Cell Nucleus; D002843:Chromatin / Q000235:genetics*; D018392:Genomic Imprinting; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D062085:RNA, Long Noncoding / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D062085:RNA, Long Noncoding
keywords: Flowering Locus C; Gene regulation; Long non-coding RNAs; Plant epigenetics