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Orthologous plant microRNAs: microregulators with great potential for improving stress tolerance in plants

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Small RNAs that are highly conserved across many plant species are involved in stress responses.

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Plants are exposed to many types of unfavorable conditions during their life cycle that result in some degree of stress. Recent studies on microRNAs (miRNAs) have highlighted their great potential as regulators of stress tolerance in plants. One of the possible ways in which plants counter environmental stresses is by altering their gene expression by the action of miRNAs. miRNAs regulate the expression of target genes by hybridizing to their nascent reverse complementary sequences marking them for cleavage in the nucleus or translational repression in the cytoplasm. Some miRNAs have been reported to be key regulators in biotic as well as abiotic stress responses across many species. The present review highlights some of the regulatory roles of orthologous plant miRNAs in response to various types of stress conditions.

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Abbreviations

lsiRNAs:

Long-siRNAs

miRNAs:

MicroRNAs

nat-siRNAs:

Natural antisense siRNAs

rasiRNAs:

Repeat-associated siRNAs

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Acknowledgments

RR acknowledges the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India for Overseas Associateship for scientists working in north-east India. KJ is thankful to University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India for non-NET fellowship.

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  1. Genomics Core Facility, Department of Plant Soil and Agricultural Systems, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 62901-4415, USA

    Ravi Rajwanshi & David A. Lightfoot

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, 788011, India

    Ravi Rajwanshi, Sreejita Chakraborty & Karam Jayanandi

  3. Bioinformatics Centre, Gurucharan College, Silchar, Assam, 788004, India

    Sreejita Chakraborty & Bibhas Deb

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Rajwanshi, R., Chakraborty, S., Jayanandi, K. et al. Orthologous plant microRNAs: microregulators with great potential for improving stress tolerance in plants. Theor Appl Genet 127, 2525–2543 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-014-2391-y

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