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Advances in the regulation of plant salt-stress tolerance by miRNA

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Salt stress significantly affects the growth, development, yield, and quality of plants. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in various stress responses via target gene regulation. Their role in regulating salt stress has also received significant attention from researchers. Various transcription factor families are the common target genes of plant miRNAs. Thus, regulating the expression of miRNAs is a novel method for developing salt-tolerant crops. This review summarizes plant miRNAs that mediate salt tolerance, specifically miRNAs that have been utilized in genetic engineering to modify plant salinity tolerance. The molecular mechanism by which miRNAs mediate salt stress tolerance merits elucidation, and this knowledge will promote the development of miRNA-mediated salt-tolerant crops and provide new strategies against increasingly severe soil salinization.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32102342), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2020QC148), Ningxia Key Agricultural Technology Research Project, China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA, Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development (Grant No. 2018CXGC0306), National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (Grant No. 31972383), and Fruit Industrial Technology System of Shandong Province (Grant No. SDAIT-06-03).

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  3. State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, 271018, Shandong, China

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Gao, Z., Ma, C., Zheng, C. et al. Advances in the regulation of plant salt-stress tolerance by miRNA. Mol Biol Rep 49, 5041–5055 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-022-07179-6

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