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Fig. 3 | BMC Plant Biology

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From: Long non-coding RNAs: emerging players regulating plant abiotic stress response and adaptation

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LncRNA module controlling environmental abiotic stress response in plants. Relying on the target mimic mechanism increased the expression of lincRNA340 under drought, which reduced the activity of target miR169 and ultimately increased NUCLEAR FACTOR Y (NF-Y) gene expression [60]. The lncRNAs TCONS_00048391 and TCONS_00010856 acted as endogenous target mimics for bra-miR164a, which regulates the heat stress response [64]. Repression of the FLC locus during the early onset of cold stress is controlled by COLD INDUCED LONG ANTISENSE INTRAGENIC RNAs (COOLAIR), an alternatively spliced NAT lncRNA transcribed from the antisense orientation of FLC gene by chromatin modification (reducing active histone mark H3K36me3 and enhancing repressive histone mark H3K27me3) of the FLC locus during vernalization [65]. Under salinity stress TCONS_00020253 up-regulate expression of Na+/H+ exchanger gene Medtr1g081900 in roots [68]. Inductive mechanism of lncRNA INDUCED BY PHOSPHATE STARVATION 1(IPS1) works as an eTM or decoy for miR399 and regulates the target PHO2 gene expression and phosphate homeostasis in Arabidopsis (Franco-Zorrilla et al. [11] and Bari et al. [69]). Significant up-regulatory activity of lncXLOC_086307 suggests that XLOC_086307 likely participates in Cd response processes in rice by controlling the cysteine-rich peptide metabolism-related gene OS03G0196600 [88]

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