Rice small RNAs that are involved in heat stress at the flowering stage.
Two rice cultivars that exhibit contrasting sensitivity to heat stress were used in this study: the heat-tolerant indica genotype Gan-Xiang-Nuo (GXN) and heat-sensitive indica cultivar Hua-Jing-Xian-74 (HJX).Panicle samples from both heat-treated and control samples were collected with three biological replicates at 1, 6, 24h time points during the course of the 24h experiment.