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- Small RNAs like microRNAs and phased small interfering RNAs are crucial for plant development, specifically in cultivated and wild soybeans.
- A study compared sRNA profiles in both types of soybeans across three developmental stages and found 443 known miRNAs and 15 novel miRNAs, with slight differences in abundance.
- The research identified key phasiRNAs linked to disease resistance and other important functions, suggesting that specific miRNAs may initiate phasiRNA production, highlighting the roles of sRNAs in soybean germination.
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Small RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs) and phased small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs; from loci), play key roles in plant development. Cultivated soybean, , contributes a great deal to food production, but, compared to its wild kin, , it may lose some genetic information during domestication. In this work, we analyzed the sRNA profiles of different tissues in both cultivated (C08) and wild soybeans (W05) at three stages of development. A total of 443 known miRNAs and 15 novel miRNAs showed varying abundances between different samples, but the miRNA profiles were generally similar in both accessions. Based on a sliding window analysis workflow that we developed, 50 loci generating 55 21-nucleotide phasiRNAs were identified in C08, and 46 phasiRNAs from 41 loci were identified in W05. In germinated seedlings, phasiRNAs were more abundant in C08 than in W05. Disease resistant genes constitute a very large family of loci. PhasiRNAs were also generated from several loci that encode for NAC transcription factors, Dicer-like 2 (DCL2), Pentatricopeptide Repeat (PPR), and Auxin Signaling F-box 3 (AFB3) proteins. To investigate the possible involvement of miRNAs in initiating the -phasiRNA pathway, miRNA target predictions were performed and 17 C08 miRNAs and 15 W05 miRNAs were predicted to trigger phasiRNAs biogenesis. In summary, we provide a comprehensive description of the sRNA profiles of wild versus cultivated soybeans, and discuss the possible roles of sRNAs during soybean germination.
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