Fig. 2From: Long non-coding RNAs: emerging players regulating plant abiotic stress response and adaptationBiogenesis of various lncRNAs. LincRNAs originate from intergenic regions, while incRNAs are transcribed from intronic regions. NATs originate from complementary DNA strands of sense coding regions [26], while circRNAs originate from a ‘back-splicing reaction of internal exons in pre-mRNA’ [29, 31]. The figure is modified from Wang and Chekanova [33] and Wu et al. [29]Back to article page