A Genomic View of Alternative Splicing of Long Non-coding RNAs during Rice Seed Development Reveals Extensive Splicing and lncRNA Gene Families.

Alternative splicing (AS) is a key modulator of development in many eukaryotic organisms. In plants, alternative splice forms of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are known to modulate flowering time in Arabidopsis and fertility in rice. Here we demonstrate that alternative splicing of coding and long non-coding RNAs occurs during rice seed development by comparing AS in immature seeds vs.