Home > Browse Issues > Vol.36 No.9
Research Progress of miRNAs in Plant Pollen Development
Yang Jing, Song Jianghua*
College of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
Abstract: As a class of endogenous negative regulators， plant miRNAs regulate the gene expression by silencing target genes or translation inhibiting. At present， many miRNAs involved in pollen development had been identified by high-throughput sequencing， miRNA array and quantitative reverse transcription PCR. Meanwhile， more and more evidences showed that these miRNAs selectively existed in various periods of pollen development and played specific roles in regulatory function. This review is about the relevant researches of miRNAs associated with pollen development in recent years. It described the corresponding methods and the miRNAs participating in the regulation of pollen development， in order to provide research strategies for molecular mechanisms of miRNAs regulation on pollen development and male sterility line development in crops by artificial miRNAs， as well as promotion of heterosis application.
CN
EN