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  • Title: Study of expressions of miRNAs in the spikelets based on their spatial location on panicle in rice cultivars provided insight into their influence on grain development.
    Author: Chandra T, Mishra S, Panda BB, Sahu G, Dash SK, Shaw BP.
    Journal: Plant Physiol Biochem; 2021 Feb; 159():244-256. PubMed ID: 33388659.
    Abstract:
    Development of rice cultivars bearing numerous spikelets by breeding approach to increase the yearly production of rice to approximately 800 million metric tons to feed the ever increasing population of the world accompanies poor grain filling in the inferior spikelets preventing achievement of the yield potential. As the initial stages of caryopses development are of much importance for grain filling, spatio-temporal expressions of the miRNAs were studied during these periods in the spikelets of a compact-panicle rice cultivar, Oryza sativa cv. Mahalaxmi, bearing numerous spikelets per panicle to understand the reason of poor grain filling at the level of the initial biochemical events. Differential expression of several known miRNAs between the superior and inferior spikelets suggested great difference in metabolism related to grain filling in the spikelets based on their spatial location on compact panicle. Expressions of five known and four novel miRNAs were validated by Northern. Their targets included the enzymes directly involved in starch biosynthesis like sucrose synthase, starch synthase and pullulanase, besides others. Spatio-temporal expression studies of these miRNAs in the spikelets of Mahalaxmi revealed a pattern of mostly a greater expression in the inferior spikelets compared with the superior ones concomitant with an inverse expression of the target genes, which was not observed in the lax-panicle cultivar Upahar. The study thus revealed that the grain filling in rice is greatly regulated by miRNAs, and these miRNAs or their target genes could be considered for biotechnological interventions for improving grain filling in the rice cultivars of interest.
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