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Small RNA in rice genome

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Rice has many characteristics of a model plant. The recent completion of the draft of the rice genome represents an important advance in our knowledge of plant biology and also has an important contribution to the understanding of general genomic evolution. Besides the rice genome finishing map, the next urgent step for rice researchers is to annotate the genes and noncoding functional sequences. The recent work shows that noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) play significant roles in biological systems. We have explored all the known small RNAs (a kind of ncRNA) within rice genome and other six species sequences, including Arabidopsis, maize, yeast, worm, mouse and pig. As a result we find 160 out of 552 small RNAs (sRNAs) in database have homologs in 108 rice scaffolds, and almost all of them (99.41%) locate in intron regions of rice by gene predication. 19 sRNAs only appear in rice. More importantly, we find two special LJ14 sRNAs: one is located in a set of sRNA ZMU14SNR9(s) which only appears in three plants, 86% sequences of them can be compared as the same sequence in rice, Arabidopsis and maize; the other conserved sRNA XLHS7CU14 has a segment which appears in almost all these species from plants to animals. All these results indicate that sRNA do not have evident borderline between plants and animals.

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  1. Beijing Genomics Institute/Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 101300, Beijing, China

    Kai Wang, Lan Zhong & Runsheng Chen

  2. Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China

    Xiaopeng Zhu & Runsheng Chen

  3. College of Life Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China

    Lan Zhong

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Wang, K., Zhu, X., Zhong, L. et al. Small RNA in rice genome. Sci. China Ser. C.-Life Sci. 45, 497–503 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1360/02yc9054

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