3 February 2020 – Recent Publication on Plant Physiology

Our Center’s Deputy Director Prof. Ting Fung Chan has teamed up with Prof. Hon Ming Lam, our Center’s Director and Prof. Sai Ming Ngai, our Center member in a recent research project.

With joint efforts, the team revealed that some non-coding RNA can produce very short proteins (small peptides), which play an important role in regulating organismal development and stress resistances. The findings challenged the very definition of non-coding RNAs and may open a new research path for future drug and crop improvement.

The research finding has been published in “Analysis of Soybean Long Non-coding RNAs Reveals a Subset of Small Peptide-Coding Transcripts” in the renowned scientific journal Plant Physiology.

Read the full article HERE.

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