These small non-coding RNAs have a length of 60–300 nt ... The Dicer enzyme trims this pri-miRNA, and once the other strand is discarded, the miRNA recruits the Argonaute protein to form an ...

The rest is composed of non-coding DNA, sometimes referred to as junk DNA. However, junk DNA is now known to have many other essential functions, such as regulating gene expression by turning the ...

Although long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs ... the study conducted genome-wide strand-specific RNA sequencing (ssRNA-seq) on grain endosperm at 10 and 15 days after pollination (DAP) and integrated ...