Plant BiologybioRxiv
R-loops between nascent pri-miRNAs and the encoding loci promote co-transcriptional processing of miRNAs in plants
L. Gonzalo, I. Tossolini, T. Gulanicz…·P. A. Manavella
This study shows that miRNA biogenesis in plants is coupled to transcription through R-loops, which anchor transcripts and promote co-transcriptional processing.
DOI 10.1038/s41477-022-01125-x