Table 5. The expression level of drought-responsive miRNAs (also, evolutionary conserved) in both leaf and root libraries of P. persica.
miRNA | LC-expressed | LS-expressed | Up/Down | RC-expressed | RS-expressed | Up/Down |
miR156 | 934112 | 1346985 | ↓ (slightly up-regulated) | 68360 | 81033 | ↓ (slightly up-regulated) |
miR157 | 262981 | 465762 | ↑ (Up-regulated) | 606233 | 87444 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR159 | 3033 | 1889 | Not significantly changed | 2176 | 489 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR160 | 2969 | 2235 | Not significantly changed | 2118 | 13332 | ↑(up-regulated) |
miR165 | 476 | 261 | ↓ (down-regulated) | 405 | 119 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR167 | 92812 | 71576 | ↓(down-regulated) | 83715 | 5571 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR168 | 20085 | 21168 | Not significantly changed | 14751 | 16549 | Not significantly changed |
miR169 | 907 | 804 | Not significantly changed | 1420 | 94 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR171 | 262 | 128 | Not significantly changed | 90 | 393 | ↑(up-regulated) |
miR390 | 4098 | 5471 | Not significantly changed | 1862 | 2659 | Not significantly changed |
miR393 | 91 | 48 | Not significantly changed | 83 | 20 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR395 | 120 | 42 | ↓ (down-regulated) | Not detected in root library | ||
miR396 | 2993 | 3033 | Not significantly changed | 3388 | 539 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR397 | 10464 | 11428 | Not significantly changed | 36291 | 4151 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR398 | 1741 | 1569 | Not significantly changed | 10259 | 586 | ↓(down-regulated) |
miR408 | 77621 | 55268 | Not significantly changed | 71947 | 34715 | ↓(down-regulated) |
As seen in the table, most of the drought-responsive miRNAs were markedly down-regulated except of miR156. Comprehensive information about the fold-change (log2), p-value, expression level of libraries with normalized value can be found in Table S6.