Non-perfectly matching small RNAs can induce stable and heritable epigenetic modifications and can be used as molecular markers to trace the origin and fate of silencing RNAs

Characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana promoter Bidirectionality and Antisense RNAs by Depletion of Nuclear RNA Decay Pathways

(2020) Axel Thieffry et al.   PLANT CELL

Epigenetic Modifications: An Unexplored Facet of Exogenous RNA Application in Plants

(2020) Athanasios Dalakouras et al.   Plants-Basel

Abundant expression of maternal siRNAs is a conserved feature of seed development

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Reaction Mechanisms of Pol IV, RDR2, and DCL3 Drive RNA Channeling in the siRNA-Directed DNA Methylation Pathway

(2019) Jasleen Singh et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Locus-specific control of the de novo DNA methylation pathway in Arabidopsis by the CLASSY family

(2018) Ming Zhou et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Paternal easiRNAs regulate parental genome dosage in Arabidopsis

(2018) German Martinez et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Evidence for ARGONAUTE4–DNA interactions in RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants

(2016) Sylvie Lahmy et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

An RNAi-Based Control of Fusarium graminearum Infections Through Spraying of Long dsRNAs Involves a Plant Passage and Is Controlled by the Fungal Silencing Machinery

(2016) Aline Koch et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Long non-coding RNA produced by RNA polymerase V determines boundaries of heterochromatin

(2016) Gudrun Böhmdorfer et al.   eLife

The expanding world of small RNAs in plants

(2015) Filipe Borges et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Epigenetic transitions leading to heritable, RNA-mediated de novo silencing inArabidopsis thaliana

(2015) Donna M. Bond et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of Pol IV and RDR2-dependent precursors of 24 nt siRNAs guiding de novo DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

(2015) Todd Blevins et al.   eLife

Molecular Mechanism of Action of Plant DRM De Novo DNA Methyltransferases

(2014) Xuehua Zhong et al.   CELL

miRNAs trigger widespread epigenetically activated siRNAs from transposons in Arabidopsis

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SRA- and SET-domain-containing proteins link RNA polymerase V occupancy to DNA methylation

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RNA-directed DNA methylation: an epigenetic pathway of increasing complexity

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Analysis of Complementarity Requirements for Plant MicroRNA Targeting Using a Nicotiana benthamiana Quantitative Transient Assay

(2014) Q. Liu et al.   PLANT CELL

The SET Domain Proteins SUVH2 and SUVH9 Are Required for Pol V Occupancy at RNA-Directed DNA Methylation Loci

(2014) Zhang-Wei Liu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Transposon Variants and Their Effects on Gene Expression in Arabidopsis

(2013) Xi Wang et al.   PLoS Genetics

Spatial and functional relationships among Pol V-associated loci, Pol IV-dependent siRNAs, and cytosine methylation in the Arabidopsis epigenome

(2012) A. T. Wierzbicki et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

DDR complex facilitates global association of RNA polymerase V to promoters and evolutionarily young transposons

(2012) Xuehua Zhong et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Maternal siRNAs as regulators of parental genome imbalance and gene expression in endosperm of Arabidopsis seeds

(2012) J. Lu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mobile 24 nt Small RNAs Direct Transcriptional Gene Silencing in the Root Meristems of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) Charles W. Melnyk et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Extraordinary transgressive phenotypes of hybrid tomato are influenced by epigenetics and small silencing RNAs

(2011) Padubidri V Shivaprasad et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Size and positional effects of promoter RNA segments on virus-induced RNA-directed DNA methylation and transcriptional gene silencing

(2011) Shungo Otagaki et al.   Epigenetics

Changes in 24-nt siRNA levels in Arabidopsis hybrids suggest an epigenetic contribution to hybrid vigor

(2011) M. Groszmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silencing signals in plants: a long journey for small RNAs

(2011) Attila Molnar et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

RNA polymerase plays both sides: Vivid and bidirectional transcription around and upstream of active promoters

(2010) Pascal Preker et al.   CELL CYCLE

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

(2010) Julie A. Law et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Arabidopsis RNA-Directed DNA Methylation Argonautes Functionally Diverge Based on Their Expression and Interaction with Target Loci

(2010) E. R. Havecker et al.   PLANT CELL

Virus-mediated efficient induction of epigenetic modifications of endogenous genes with phenotypic changes in plants

(2010) Akira Kanazawa et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A Collection of Target Mimics for Comprehensive Analysis of MicroRNA Function in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) Marco Todesco et al.   PLoS Genetics

MicroRNAs: Target Recognition and Regulatory Functions

(2009) David P. Bartel   CELL

Origins and Mechanisms of miRNAs and siRNAs

(2009) Richard W. Carthew et al.   CELL

RNA polymerase V transcription guides ARGONAUTE4 to chromatin

(2009) Andrzej T Wierzbicki et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Revisiting the principles of microRNA target recognition and mode of action

(2009) Peter Brodersen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Deep-sequencing of plant viral small RNAs reveals effective and widespread targeting of viral genomes

(2009) Livia Donaire et al.   VIROLOGY

Noncoding Transcription by RNA Polymerase Pol IVb/Pol V Mediates Transcriptional Silencing of Overlapping and Adjacent Genes

(2008) Andrzej T. Wierzbicki et al.   CELL

A stepwise pathway for biogenesis of 24-nt secondary siRNAs and spreading of DNA methylation

(2008) Lucia Daxinger et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

A structural-maintenance-of-chromosomes hinge domain–containing protein is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation

(2008) Tatsuo Kanno et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Technical Advance: Tobacco rattle virus as a vector for analysis of gene function by silencing

(2003) Frank Ratcliff et al.   PLANT JOURNAL