Genome-wide identification of leaf abscission associated microRNAs in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is an economically important crop, mainly due to the production of sugar and biofuel (Azevedo RA, Carvalho RF, Cia MC, & Gratão PL, Trop Plant Biol 4:42-51, 2011). Grown mainly in tropical and subtropical countries, sugarcane is a highly polyploid plant with up to ten copies of each chromosome, which increases the difficulties of genome assembly and genetic, physiologic and biochemical analyses. The increasing demands of sugar and the increasing cost of sugarcane harvest require sugarcane varieties which can shed their leaves during the maturity time, so it is important to study the mechanism of leaf abscission in sugarcane.

Results

To improve the understanding of miRNA roles in sugarcane leaf abscission, we reported the genome

SUBMITTER: Li M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5613641 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature