MicroRNA Advances and Application in Plant Biology presents a broad range of tools and techniques used for microRNA identification and utilization for diversity analysis in plants, crop improvement, and gene regulation. With expert insights, this book addresses those concepts through curated chapters that are well-illustrated with informative data, tables, figures, and photographs. While biological microRNA database resources have been created for the better understanding of structural and functional properties of primary-microRNAs (pri-microRNAs) to mature microRNAs, there remains a need for foundation understanding of how microRNAs may play a very crucial role in a plant lifecycle as an regulatory and stress tolerance molecule. There are still many unanswered questions about the structural and functional properties of the microRNAs, like the role of microRNA in crop improvement, gene regulation, stress tolerance, disease resistance plant, plant communication, and environmental interaction.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Contributors - p. xv 7. Chapter 1. Plant microRNAs: An overview - p. 1 8. Chapter 2. What are microRNAs, their origin and functions in plants? - p. 35 9. Chapter 3. Genetic modification of plants using microRNAs - p. 67 10. Chapter 4. Plant development: What role do microRNAs play? - p. 83 11. Chapter 5. Root architecture and microRNAs: A key role for microRNAs - p. 107 12. Chapter 6. Tolerance-enhancing microRNA: A new therapeutic target for plants - p. 125 13. Chapter 7. Regulatory role of microRNA in plants during development with respect to root and shoot architecture and secondary growth - p. 155 14. Chapter 8. Homeostasis in plant microRNAs - p. 181 15. Chapter 9. MicroRNA tools for gene silencing - p. 215 16. Chapter 10. Application of microRNAs in horticultural crops - p. 233 17. Chapter 11. MicroRNAs in monocot plants like rice, wheat, and sugarcane - p. 263 18. Chapter 12. MicroRNAs in dicot plant like Arabidopsis - p. 279 19. Chapter 13. MicroRNAs in legumes and symbiotic association with rhizobacteria - p. 293 20. Chapter 14. Engineered artificial MicroRNA in plant: an overview - p. 311 21. Chapter 15. Role of microRNA in plant defense - p. 343 22. Chapter 16. MicroRNA databases and bioinformatics analysis - p. 367 23. Index - p. 395
MicroRNA Advances and Application in Plant Biology presents a broad range of tools and techniques used for microRNA identification and utilization for diversity analysis in plants, crop improvement, and gene regulation. With expert insights, this book addresses those concepts through curated chapters that are well-illustrated with informative data, tables, figures, and photographs. While biological microRNA database resources have been created for the better understanding of structural and functional properties of primary-microRNAs (pri-microRNAs) to mature microRNAs, there remains a need for foundation understanding of how microRNAs may play a very crucial role in a plant lifecycle as an regulatory and stress tolerance molecule. There are still many unanswered questions about the structural and functional properties of the microRNAs, like the role of microRNA in crop improvement, gene regulation, stress tolerance, disease resistance plant, plant communication, and environmental interaction.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Contributors - p. xv 7. Chapter 1. Plant microRNAs: An overview - p. 1 8. Chapter 2. What are microRNAs, their origin and functions in plants? - p. 35 9. Chapter 3. Genetic modification of plants using microRNAs - p. 67 10. Chapter 4. Plant development: What role do microRNAs play? - p. 83 11. Chapter 5. Root architecture and microRNAs: A key role for microRNAs - p. 107 12. Chapter 6. Tolerance-enhancing microRNA: A new therapeutic target for plants - p. 125 13. Chapter 7. Regulatory role of microRNA in plants during development with respect to root and shoot architecture and secondary growth - p. 155 14. Chapter 8. Homeostasis in plant microRNAs - p. 181 15. Chapter 9. MicroRNA tools for gene silencing - p. 215 16. Chapter 10. Application of microRNAs in horticultural crops - p. 233 17. Chapter 11. MicroRNAs in monocot plants like rice, wheat, and sugarcane - p. 263 18. Chapter 12. MicroRNAs in dicot plant like Arabidopsis - p. 279 19. Chapter 13. MicroRNAs in legumes and symbiotic association with rhizobacteria - p. 293 20. Chapter 14. Engineered artificial MicroRNA in plant: an overview - p. 311 21. Chapter 15. Role of microRNA in plant defense - p. 343 22. Chapter 16. MicroRNA databases and bioinformatics analysis - p. 367 23. Index - p. 395
