Research Article

Detecting the Candidate Gender Determinants by Bioinformatic Prediction of miRNAs and Their Targets from Transcriptome Sequences of the Male and Female Flowers in Salix suchowensis

Table 1

Potential miRNAs identified in female flower buds of S. suchowensis.

miRNAmiRNA sequence (5′-3′)LM (nt)ArmPre-miR location LP (nt)

ssu-miR162aUCGAUAAACCUCUGCAUCCAG213′seq459792:217..303:+86

ssu-miR162bUCGAUAAACCUCUGCAUCCAG213′seq351845:128..215:−87

ssu-miR162cUCGAUAAACCUCUGCAUCCAG213′seq365695:26..113:+87

ssu-miR166GGAAUGUUGUCUGGCUCGAGG215′seq576601:133..255:+122

ssu-miR169CAGCCAAGGAUGACUUGCCGG213′seq292249:428..483:-55
seq292249:488..543:−

ssu-miR390CGCUAUCCAUCCUGAGUUUCA213′seq242088:345..447:−102

ssu-miR172aAGAAUCCUGAUGAUGCUGCAG215′seq288542:116..254:+138
seq263722:286..424:+
seq600570:208..346:−

ssu-miR472aUUUUCCCAACUCCACCCAUCCC223′seq62383:374..435:−61

ssu-miR472bUUUUCCCAACUCCACCCAUCCC223′seq355906:377..445:−68

ssu-miR1448CUUUCCAACGCCUCCCAUAC203′seq140125:105..174:+69

ssu-miR6423CCGCUGUCGCCACUAUCUUCCU225′seq431318:268..328:+60
seq593886:92..152:+

LM: length of miRNA; Arm: location of mature miRNAs on secondary stem-loop structures of pre-miRNA sequences; Pre-miR location: miRNA precursor’s location in ESTs of willow female flower buds; LP: length of pre-miRNA.