TABLE 1.

Long non coding RNAs/miRNAs involved in imparting salt tolerance.

S.N.	lncRNA/miRNA	Plant Species	Characteristics	References
1	ThSAIR6	Tamarix hispida	Decreased the contents of H2O2 and enhanced activity of anti-oxidative enzymes	Xu et al. (2021)
2	AtR8lncRNA	Arabidopsis thaliana	Regulate seed germination in response to salt	Zhang et al. (2020)
3	LncRNA973	Gossypium hirsutum	Increased expression resulted into increased salt tolerance	Zhang et al. (2019)
4	Pal_00132209	Populus alba	Affect fucosyltransferase or NAC3 and regulates growth under salt stress	Ma et al. (2019b)
5	Pal _00184400	Populus alba	HKT1 and show differential expression in xylem	Ma et al. (2019b)
6	lnc_388, lnc_973, lnc_253	Gossypium hirsutum	Regulates tolerance to salt stress	Deng et al. (2018)
7	DRIR (Drought Induced long non coding RNA)	Arabidopsis thaliana	Regulates ABA mediated responses to both salt and drought	Qin et al. (2017)
8	TCONS_00116877	Medicago truncatula	Regulates oxidative stress under salt conditions	Wang et al. (2015)
9	TCONS_00046739	Medicago truncatula	Regulates cytochrome P450 under salt stress	Wang et al. (2015)
10	miR156, miR398	Solanum lycopersicum	Increased expression levels imparted salt tolerance	Cakir et al. (2021)
11	nta-miR156a_R + 3, farmiR159_L + 2_1ss22T, mes-MIR319e- p5_2ss12GC19 GA	Ipomoea batatas	tissue specific expression under salt stress	Yang et al. (2020)
12	miR26, miR05, miR20, miR31, miR11, miR28, miR15, miR14, miR32, miR09, miR22, miR33, miR19, miR24	Pennisetum glaucum	Shows altered expression under salinity	Shinde et al. (2020)
13	miR172, miR319, miR408, miR2590	Medicago sativa	Regulates gene associated with salt tolerance	Ma et al. (2019b)
14	TaemiR408	Triticum aestivum	Overexpresion resulted in enhanced salt tolerance	Bai et al. (2018)
15	miR164s, mir-36	Zea mays	up-regulated in leaves under salt treatment	Fu et al. (2017)
16	osa-miR1878, osa- miR2863c	Oryza sativa	Upregulated under salt stress	Goswami et al. (2017)
17	miR171b, miR167f	Oryza sativa	Promotes better adaptability to salt	Parmar et al. (2020)
18	sly-miR156e-5p, slymiRn23b, slymiRn50a	Solanum pimpinellifolium	Involved in stress related pathways	Zhao et al. (2017)
19	miR172	Glycine max	Improves salt tolerance	Pan et al. (2016)
20	miRNVL5	Gossypium hirsutum	Regulation of plant stress to salt	Gao et al. (2016)
21	miR-395	Cucumis sativus	Up-regulated and regulates ATP sulfurylase	Li et al. (2016)
22	miR156/157, miR158, miR166, miR168 and miR408	Raphanus sativus	Expression was upregulated significantly	Sun et al. (2015)
23	miR-160	Gossypium raimondii	Up-regulated under salt stress and control Auxin response factor (ARF)	Xie et al. (2015)