Our study provides the first comprehensive poly(A) tail dataset spanning all major lineages of plant evolution, uncovering lineage-specific poly(A) tail length distributions. Notably, we reveal the presence of poly(A)-less transcripts in several plant clades, which is overlooked in previous transcriptomic studies. This atlas offers a valuable resource for understanding the evolutionary and regulatory complexity of mRNA 3' end formation across the plant kingdom.
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