Prof. Ting Fung Chan has teamed up with Prof. Hon Ming Lam and Prof. Sai Ming Ngai 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 the renowned scientific journal Plant Physiology on “Analysis of Soybean Long Non-coding RNAs Reveals a Subset of Small Peptide-Coding Transcripts”.

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