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- Title
microRNAs: Key Players in Plant Response to Metal Toxicity.
- Authors
Yang, Ying; Huang, Jiu; Sun, Qiumin; Wang, Jingqi; Huang, Lichao; Fu, Siyi; Qin, Sini; Xie, Xiaoting; Ge, Sisi; Li, Xiang; Cheng, Zhuo; Wang, Xiaofei; Chen, Houming; Zheng, Bingsong; He, Yi
- Abstract
Environmental metal pollution is a common problem threatening sustainable and safe crop production. Heavy metals (HMs) cause toxicity by targeting key molecules and life processes in plant cells. Plants counteract excess metals in the environment by enhancing defense responses, such as metal chelation, isolation to vacuoles, regulating metal intake through transporters, and strengthening antioxidant mechanisms. In recent years, microRNAs (miRNAs), as a small non-coding RNA, have become the central regulator of a variety of abiotic stresses, including HMs. With the introduction of the latest technologies such as next-generation sequencing (NGS), more and more miRNAs have been widely recognized in several plants due to their diverse roles. Metal-regulated miRNAs and their target genes are part of a complex regulatory network. Known miRNAs coordinate plant responses to metal stress through antioxidant functions, root growth, hormone signals, transcription factors (TF), and metal transporters. This article reviews the research progress of miRNAs in the stress response of plants to the accumulation of HMs, such as Cu, Cd, Hg, Cr, and Al, and the toxicity of heavy metal ions.
- Subjects
HEAVY metals; HEAVY metal toxicology; NON-coding RNA; MICRORNA; METALS; ROOT growth
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 15, p8642
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23158642