Identification and Functional Characterization of Plant MiRNA Under Salt Stress Shed Light on Salinity Resistance Improvement Through MiRNA Manipulation in Crops

Overview

Journal Front Plant Sci

Date 2021 Jul 5

PMID 34220888

Citations 17

Authors

Tao Xu

Long Zhang

Zhengmei Yang

Yiliang Wei

Tingting Dong

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Abstract

Salinity, as a major environmental stressor, limits plant growth, development, and crop yield remarkably. However, plants evolve their own defense systems in response to salt stress. Recently, microRNA (miRNA) has been broadly studied and considered to be an important regulator of the plant salt-stress response at the post-transcription level. In this review, we have summarized the recent research progress on the identification, functional characterization, and regulatory mechanism of miRNA involved in salt stress, have discussed the emerging manipulation of miRNA to improve crop salt resistance, and have provided future direction for plant miRNA study under salt stress, suggesting that the salinity resistance of crops could be improved by the manipulation of microRNA.

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