miRNA-Seq of Arabidopsis thaliana:seedlings
Total RNA was extracted using Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, CA, USA) following the manufacturer's procedure.Approximately 5 g of total RNA were used to prepare nine small RNA librariesaccording to the protocol of TruSeq Small RNA Sample Prep Kits (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). And then the libraries were sequenced by Illumina Hiseq 2500 at the LC-BIO following the vendors recommended protocol. Raw reads were subjected to an in-house program, ACGT101-miR (LC Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA) to remove adapter dimers, junk, low complexity, common RNA families (rRNA, tRNA, snRNA, snoRNA) and repeats.