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microRNA-Mediated Regulation of Plant Vascular Development and Secondary Growth

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Plant microRNAs

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Secondary or lateral growth, is the biological process that confers girth to stems and roots in plants, which is essential to structurally sustain organs, for water and nutrients transport and continuous plant growth. This process occurs at the expense of the cell division activity in two main lateral meristems—the vascular cambium and the cork cambium. From the activity of cambia, one of the main sources of biomass on Earth, wood, is produced. Given its economic, environmental and societal relevance a great deal of attention has been given to finding regulators of vascular cambium activity and wood formation. Some of the regulatory networks found are under post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression by microRNAs during vasculature formation, cambium activity, and wood formation and in several aspects of vascular development. In this chapter, we will briefly review the current knowledge on microRNAs roles during plant vascular development with a focus on recent work on miRNAs activity in secondary growth in plants.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank funding from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, in the form of CEEC/IND/00175/2017 contract to Ana Milhinhos, Ph.D. fellowship PD/BD/114359/2016 to Susana Lopes, GREEN-it (grant no. UID/Multi/04551/2013) and BioISI (grant no. UID/Multi/04046/2019). The authors apologise to authors whose work could not be included in this review due to space limitations.

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    Ana Milhinhos & Susana Lopes

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    Ana Milhinhos, Susana Lopes & Célia Miguel

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Milhinhos, A., Lopes, S., Miguel, C. (2020). microRNA-Mediated Regulation of Plant Vascular Development and Secondary Growth. In: Miguel, C., Dalmay, T., Chaves, I. (eds) Plant microRNAs. Concepts and Strategies in Plant Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35772-6_8

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