TY - JOUR AU - Barakat, Abdelali AU - Wall, Phillip K. AU - DiLoreto, Scott AU - dePamphilis, Claude W. AU - Carlson, John E. PY - 2007 DA - 2007/12/31 TI - Conservation and divergence of microRNAs in Populus JO - BMC Genomics SP - 481 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs (sRNA) ~21 nucleotides in length that negatively control gene expression by cleaving or inhibiting the translation of target gene transcripts. miRNAs have been extensively analyzed in Arabidopsis and rice and partially investigated in other non-model plant species. To date, 109 and 62 miRNA families have been identified in Arabidopsis and rice respectively. However, only 33 miRNAs have been identified from the genome of the model tree species (Populus trichocarpa), of which 11 are Populus specific. The low number of miRNA families previously identified in Populus, compared with the number of families identified in Arabidopsis and rice, suggests that many miRNAs still remain to be discovered in Populus. In this study, we analyzed expressed small RNAs from leaves and vegetative buds of Populus using high throughput pyrosequencing. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-8-481 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-8-481 ID - Barakat2007 ER -