Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets highlights challenges in the detection of mobile transcripts from short-read RNA-Seq data
Pirita Paajanen, Melissa Tomkins, Franziska Hoerbst, Ruth Veevers, Michelle Heeney, Hannah Rae Thomas, Federico Apelt, Eleftheria Saplaoura, Saurabh Gupta, Margaret H. Frank, D. J. Walther, Christine R. Faulkner, Julia Kehr, Friedrich Kragler, Richard James Morris
This study re-analyzes mobile mRNA datasets and finds that many annotated mobile transcripts lack support from RNA-Seq data due to technical and biological factors.
Nature Plants · Apr 16, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology