Identification and characterization of small non-coding RNAs from Chinese fir by high throughput sequencing

BMC Plant Biology

Table 4 Conserved miRNA targets and their putative functions

miRNA	Target function	Target^a	Conserved with^b
			ath	osa	ptc	pta	tch
Cln-miR156	SBP-domain protein	Unigene2030 (2)	+	+	+	+	+
		Unigene2872 (2)
Cln-miR158	Unknown	Unigene28340 (4)	+	–	–	–	–
Cln-miR164	Pentatricopeptide repeat-containing protein	Unigene7992 (3)	+	+	+	–	+
Cln-miR168	Argonaute protein	Unigene6526 (3)	+	+	+	+	+
Cln-miR172	APETALA2-like protein	Unigene17425 (1.5)	+	+	+	+	+
		Unigene56981 (0.5)
Cln-miR394	BolA-like family protein	Unigene56583 (4)	+	–	+	–	–
Cln-miR400	Pentatricopeptide repeat-containing protein	Unigene49313 (2)	+	–	–	–	–
		Unigene53642 (3)
Cln-miR408	Basic blue copper protein	Unigene57297 (2)	+	+	–	–	–
Cln-miR828	MYB transcription factor	Unigene2867 (2)	+	–	–	–	–
		Unigene15489 (2.5)	+	–	–	–	–
		Unigene42567 (2.5)
Cln-miR858	MYB transcription factor	Unigene58181 (2.5)
		Unigene22248 (2)
		Unigene6437 (3)

^a All predicted miRNA targets with penalty scores (shown in parentheses) of 4 or less are listed.
^bAth, osa, ptc, pta and tch represent abbreviations for A. thaliana, O. sativa, P. trichocarpa, P. taeda and T. chinensis, respectively.

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