Plant BiologybioRxivPreprint
Control of cell fate specification and patterning by an ancestral microRNA
Adolfo Aguilar‐Cruz, Eduardo Flores‐Sandoval, Ximena Gutiérrez-Ramos…·Mario Alberto Arteaga-Vazquez
The paper shows that MpDCL1a is essential for miRNA biogenesis and regulates auxin synthesis, influencing cell identity and body development in the last common ancestor of land plants.