6 publications mentioning mes-MIR166a

Open access articles that are associated with the species Manihot esculenta and mention the gene name MIR166a. Click the [+] symbols to view sentences that include the gene name, or the word cloud on the right for a summary.

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The miR156 family had the most targets (41) followed by the miR166 family with 29 targets and miR396 with 20 targets (Fig 9).

Three miRNAs belonging to the miR166 family were also common to both thebases.

The miR166 family was the largest family with 11 members, while the miR399, miR2275 and miR159 families were the smallest only containing 2 members each (Fig 2B).

Eight miRNA families (miR156, miR159/319, miR160, miR166, miR171, miR408, miR390/391, and miR395) have been identified in the common ancestor of all embryophytes.

Transcription factors are important components in the transcription process and play an important role in a variety of biological functions, and therefore it was no surprise to observe 4 miRNA families (miR166, miR169, miR319 and miR408) in cassava were associated with 9 transcription factors.

Also, there were 3 miRNA families that were identified in bothbases, miR159, miR166 and miR399.

Of the 30 miRNA families, the miR166 family was the largest with 33 members.

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Moreover, In A. thaliana, miR165 and miR166 have been implicated in regulating a set of targets involved in stress which have enriched functions of vascular development and growth [40, 41].

The miR156, miR171, miR166, and miR169 families constitute the largest miRNA families in Cassava (Table  2), with 11, 11, 11, and 29 members, respectively.

Among them, a newly reported candidate, reported-31 [31], counted for 138,426 of the total reads and ranked the 4-th most abundant among all miRNA families that were detected; it was only less abundant than miR156i/j/k, miR166 (all eight members), and miR167d/e/f (Additional file 2: Table S4).

Eight known miRNA families – miR156, miR160, miR166, miR171, miR319, miR390, miR395, and miR408 – were evolutionally conserved across the 9 species (Table  2).

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In the current study, plant miRNAs from conserved and highly expressed families (e. g miR156, miR160, miR164, miR166, miR169 and miR171) were shown to have potential targets in the genomes of two begomoviruses.

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For example, mes-miR9386, which preferentially occurred in vegetative tissues (562,473 reads), exhibited low levels in reproductive tissues (77,562 reads) while mes-miR166j, which is a member of the conserved and typically abundant miR166 family, reported to regulate meristem initiation and leaf development polarity [7, 27], was highly abundant in leaf (50,196 reads) and female flowers (50,161 reads) but low in callus (4,910 reads).

mes-miR166ac, a member of the conserved and abundant miR166 family, was used as a positive control.

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Among newly predicted targets, miR166 was associated to a basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor and miR169 to a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) DNA -binding protein.

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Finally, the cleavage sites of miR166: GH17 and new-12: EDR2 were all downstream of their CRs.