Table 1.

Biological function of miRNA^∗s in plants.

Species	miRNA∗s in abiotic stress//biotic stress//development	Cited Reference
Arabidopsis	miR169∗, miR172b∗, miR778∗, miR2111∗, miR399∗, miR396b∗//miR393∗, miR825∗//miR171a∗	(Pant et al., 2008; Hsieh et al., 2009; Barciszewska-Pacak et al., 2015; Kim et al., 2016; Du et al., 2017)//(Zhang et al., 2011; Niu et al., 2016)// (Manavella et al., 2013)
Rice	miR1320∗, miR1425∗, miR160a∗//miR160a∗-f∗, miR166a∗-e∗/g∗-l∗/n∗, miR167a∗/c∗-e∗/h∗/i∗, miR171c∗-f∗/i∗, miR396a∗-c∗/e∗/f∗, miR1318∗, miR1425∗, miR159a∗, miR168∗, miR172d∗, miR390∗, miR444b.2∗, miR528∗//	(Hu et al., 2014)//(Du et al., 2011)//
Rapeseed	miR398a∗, miR399a∗, miR399c∗, miR399d∗, miR399f∗, miR778∗, miR2111a∗, miR2111b∗//	(Pant et al., 2009)//
Barley	miR399b∗, miR399c∗, miR528b∗//	(Hackenberg et al., 2013; Liu and Sun, 2017)//
Cotton	//miR172∗, miR390∗, miR171∗, miR2949∗, miR3954∗, miR164∗	//(Xie and Zhang, 2015)
Birch	//miR396c∗//	//(Zhang J. et al., 2016)//
Tomato	miR169g∗, miR172b∗//	(Gu et al., 2010)//
Maize	miR533a∗, miR169i∗/j∗/k∗, miR528a∗/b∗//	(Trevisan et al., 2012; Casati, 2013)//
Sugarcane	miR169∗, miR396∗, miR399∗//	(Thiebaut et al., 2014)//
Chinese cabbage	miR1885b.3∗, miR1885b.2∗//	(Yu et al., 2012)//
Switchgrass	miR169∗//	(Hivrale et al., 2016)//
Populus	miR396e∗//	(Chen et al., 2015; Ren et al., 2015)//
Barrel medic	//miR169d∗/l∗/m∗/e.2∗	//(Devers et al., 2011)
Soybean	//miR1511∗	//(Luo et al., 2012)