Figure 7
Selective up-regulation of mature MIR159/319 products in siRNA-deficient mutants revealed using high throughput sRNA sequencing data. Mutant to wild-type Ratio (Vertical axis) of normalized sequencing abundances of mature MIR159/319 miRNAs or small RNA populations with specific lengths for the indicated mutant plants (Horizontal axis). Species and data accessions are indicated above each plot. Plots of the sequencing abundances are shown in Additional File 6. A: Two replicates of dcl2 dcl3 dcl4 triple mutants (dcl234a, dcl234b) and two replicates of rdr2 mutant plants (rdr2a, rdr2b). All samples are from inflorescence tissues of 5-week-old Arabidopsis. B: dcl3-IFR, inflorescence tissue of Arabidopsis dcl3 mutant plants; rdr2-IFR, inflorescence tissue of Arabidopsis rdr2 mutant plants. The ratios for ath-MIR159a and ath-MIR159b ACR3 miRNAs are set to 1 indicating absence or nearly absence of these miRNAs in both wild type and indicated mutants. C: Maize small ears 68 days after germination. D: 10-day-old P. patens protonemata.