Alternative splicing (AS) is a mechanism that plays important roles in a wide range of biological processes in plants. AS mechanisms are finely regulated by a group of splicing factors called serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins which appear to function in plant responses to environmental stress. How did the M4 TORNADO help? Collaborating research scientists at Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China and La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia chose rice shoots to analyze the role of SR proteins in the alternative splicing method. They generated mutants of SR genes of the rice family to determine if they had a regulatory role in mineral uptake and mobilization in rice shoots. The research scientists performed whole transcriptome RNA sequencing of rice (Oryza sativa) r

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