Table 8.1
Table summarizing the TF:miRNA:target modules involved in different biological functions and environment interactions
TF
miRNA
family
Target
Biological functions
Species
References
miR156
SPL
Heat stress memory
Arabidopsis
Stief et al. (2014) and Matthews (2018)
Drought tolerance
Medicago
Arshad et al. (2017)
Phosphate-deficiency
Arabidopsis
Lei et al. (2016)
Shade-avoidance
Arabidopsis
Xie et al. (2017)
miR159
MYB
Sensitivity to heat stress
Rice
Wang et al. (2012b)
ABA hypersensitivity
Arabidopsis
Roy (2016)
miR160
ARF
Drought tolerance
Arabidopsis
Kinoshita et al. (2012)
Root responses to nitrate
Arabidopsis
Gifford et al. (2008)
Heat stress tolerance
Arabidopsis, cotton
Lin et al. (2018) and Ding et al. (2016)
miR164
NAC
Drought tolerance
Arabidopsis
Fang et al. (2014)
miR165/
miR166
HD-ZIPIII/CLP-1/
RDD1
Drought/cold tolerance
Arabidopsis, rice
Ramachandran et al. (2016), Yan et al. (2016),
and Zhang et al. (2018)
Ion uptake and accumulation
Rice
Iwamoto and Tagiri (2016)
HYH
miR169
NF-YA/HAP2
Drought tolerance
Arabidopsis
Du et al. (2017), Li et al. (2008), and Ni et al.
(2013)
Nutrient-deficiency response
Wheat
Qu et al. (2015)
Salinity, high temperature
Arabidopsis
Kong et al. (2014) and Serivichyaswat et al.
(2017)
Abscisic acid response
Arabidopsis
Contreras-Cubas et al. (2012) and Cheng et al.
(2016)
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