The study investigates the detailed mechanisms of alternative splicing in plant secondary metabolism, focusing on its effects on terpenoids, phenolic compounds, and nitrogen-containing metabolites.

Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

Alternative splicing events have recently been shown to be prevalent in plants as well, with an estimated ∼20% of expressed genes in Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) and Oryza sativa (rice ...

Working with a lab led by Sascha Laubinger, a professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, the researchers found that introns in plants also have right- and left-handed 5' splice sites ...

providing an energy source and governing various aspects of plant morphology. Post-transcriptional splicing (PTS) has been previously discovered to generate polyadenylated full-length transcripts.

Lariats are discarded byproducts of RNA splicing, the process by which genetic instructions for making proteins are assembled. A new study has found hundreds more lariats than ever before ...

The joining phase of tRNA splicing has been characterized best in fungi and plants, where a single multifunctional tRNA ligase enzyme (Trl1 in yeast; AtRNL in Arabidopsis) repairs the ends of the ...

Alternative splicing is a genetic process where different segments of genes are removed, and the remaining pieces are joined together during transcription to messenger RNA (mRNA). This mechanism ...

These findings have sparked interest in exploring similar splicing-independent roles in other eukaryotes, such as plants. However, research in this area has been hampered by the scarcity of genetic ...

Splicing is the process by which cells trim away the non-essential ... The team chose the genomes of a chimpanzee, a mouse, and a flowering plant in the mustard family. Their subsequent experiments ...