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This volume presents readers with up-to-date protocols, bioinformatics toolkits, and reference material for understanding circRNAs in plants. The chapters in this book summarize the concepts and techniques for prediction/identification, validation, and analysis of plant circRNAs and their regulatory targets. Some of the topics covered are procedures for circRNA identification and characterization; strategies for circRNA generation; next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and circRNAs' research; and bioinformatics tools and pipelines for the analysis of circRNA-miRNA-mRNA regulatory networks. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and practical, Plant Circular RNAs: Methods and Protocols is an important reference for any researcher looking to explore and apply the latest developments made in this field.
List of contents
Identification and Characterization of Plant Circular RNAs.- Experimental Strategies for Studying the Function of Plant circRNAs.- Generation of Transgenic Rice Expressing circRNA and its Functional Characterization.- Identification of Circular RNAs by Multiple Displacement Amplification and their Involvement in Plant Development.- Identification of Intronic Lariat-Derived Circular RNAs in Arabidopsis by RNA Deep Sequencing.- Identification and Functional Characterization of Viroid Circular RNAs.- Circular RNA Databases.- NGS Methodologies and Computational Algorithms for the Prediction and Analysis of Plant Circular RNAs.- Computational Analysis of Transposable Elements and circRNAs in Plants.- Constructing circRNA-miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Networks by using GreenCircRNA Database.- Methods for Predicting circRNA-miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Networks: GreenCircRNA and PlantCircNet Databases as Study Cases.
