A spatiotemporal dynamic atlas of circular RNAs unraveled extensive intraspecific and developmental variation in maize

We assembled a complete transcriptomic landscape integrating both linear and circRNAs across 26 different tissues and stages in a classic maize hybrid triplet - B73, Mo17, and their hybrid F1. We performed the mRNA-seq and circRNA-seq on 26 different tissues or developmental stages of two maize inbred lines, B73 and Mo17, as well as their F1 hybrid. These large-scale datasets provided opportunities to monitor the mRNA and circRNA developmental dynamics of differential expression and regulatory variation.