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Identification of precursor transcripts for 6 novel miRNAs expands the diversity on the genomic organisation and expression of miRNA genes in rice

Séverine Lacombe* 1 email, Hiroshi Nagasaki* 2 email, Carole Santi* 1 email, David Duval1 email, Benoît Piégu1 email, Martine Bangratz1 email, Jean-Christophe Breitler3 email, Emmanuel Guiderdoni3 email, Christophe Brugidou1 email, Judith Hirsch4 email, Xiaofeng Cao5 email, Claire Brice1 email, Olivier Panaud1 email, Wojciech M Karlowski6 email, Yutaka Sato2 email and Manuel Echeverria1 email

1Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, UMR5096, Université de Perpignan via Domitia – CNRS-IRD, 52, Av. Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France

2Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

3DAP, UMR 1098, Université de Montpellier II-CIRAD-INRA-SUPAGRO 2477 Avenue Agropolis, F-34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

4INRA-SUPAGRO, UMR BGPI, Campus Baillarguet, F-34398 Montpellier Cedex 05, France

5State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China

6Bioinformatic Laboratory, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznan, Poland

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:123doi:10.1186/1471-2229-8-123

Published: 2 December 2008

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Additional file 1:

Genomic locations and organizations of osa-miR827a and osa-miR1874 genes. The genomic locations and organizations of osa-miR827a and osa-miR1874 are shown schematically in panels A and B, respectively.

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Additional file 2:

Predicted targets for osa-miR2055, osa-miR1428e, and osa-miR1874. Predicted targets for osa-miR2055, osa-miR1428e, and osa-miR1874 are shown in panels A, B and C, respectively. Red and blue characters represent the sequences of putative targets and miRNAs, respectively.

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