Dandan Li¹ , Xiaoqing Huang¹ , Ziguang Liu² , Shuang Li³ , Toshihiro Okada³ , Yasushi Yukawa³ , Juan Wu¹

1 Key Laboratory of Saline-Alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in OilField of Ministry of Education, Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China
2 Institute of Animal Husbandry, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, 150040, China
3 Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, 467850, Japan
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Molecular Soil Biology, 2016, Vol. 7, No. 7   doi: 10.5376/msb.2016.07.0007
Received: 05 May, 2016    Accepted: 01 Jun., 2016    Published: 15 Jun., 2016

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Dandan Li, Xiaoqing Huang, Ziguang Liu, Shuang Li, Toshihiro Okada, Yasushi Yukawa, and Juan Wu, 2016, Effect of AtR8 lncRNA Partial Deletion on Arabidopsis Seed Germination, Molecular Soil Biology, 7(7): 1-7 (doi: 10.5376/msb.2016.07.0007)

Long non-coding RNAs(lncRNAs) are longer than 200 nucleotides in length, which largely exist in organism and have various biological functions. AtR8 RNA is a lncRNA transcribed by RNA polymerase III in Arabidopsis. Northern blot analysis indicates that AtR8 RNA is abundant during seed germination. AtR8 RNA partial deletion reduces seed germination under normal culture condition. SA treatment induces AtR8 RNA expression. High concentrations SA treatment decreases seed germination of wild type and AtR8 RNA partial deletion mutant, but the inhibition for AtR8 RNA partial deletion mutant is more obviously. All the results show that AtR8 RNA may involve in arabidopsis seed germination process.

Long noncoding RNA; Arabidopsis; Seed germination; Environmental stress response