AhncRNAdb: Amaranthus hypochondriacus Noncoding RNA Database

Amaranthus is an herbaceous C4 dicotyledonous plant which comprises approximately 70 species relatively having high genetic variability. Amaranthus is a source of highly nutritious pseudo-cereals, rich in micronutrients, vitamins and minerals. The grain amaranths have also been noted for their drought tolerance disease and pest resistance and high yield in production. Nowadays Amaranthus has also been utilized in development of biofortified crops through transgenic approach. Considering its agronomic and economic importance, an attempt has been made to develop an online repository of noncoding RNAs such as lncRNA, miRNA and circular RNAs along with SSRs, SSR bearing lncRNAs and pre-miRNA named as “AhncRNAdb” for the first time in Amaranthus hypochondriacus genome.

This work was supported by the grant CABin Scheme Network project on Agricultural Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (F.No. Agril.Edn. 14/2/2017-A&P dated 02.08.2017), received from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Project "Establishment of Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Agriculture-BIC" funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India".