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2. Drought-triggered repression of miR166 promotes drought tolerance in soybean

Chen Zhao, Jingjing Ma, Chen Yan, Yu Jiang, Yaohua Zhang, Yudan Lu, Ye Zhang, Suxin Yang, Xianzhong Feng, Jun Yan

The Crop Journal 2024 Jan doi:10.1016/j.cj.2023.12.005

3. The miR165/166– PHABULOSA module promotes thermotolerance by transcriptionally and post-translationally regulating HSFA1

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Plant Cell. 2023 Aug;35(8):2952-2971. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koad121.

4. The miR166 mediated regulatory module controls plant height by regulating gibberellic acid biosynthesis and catabolism in soybean.

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The SnRK2 kinases modulate miRNA accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana

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The miR165/166 mediated regulatory module plays critical roles in ABA homeostasis and response in Arabidopsis thaliana

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The reduced leaflet genes encode key components of the trans-acting small interfering RNA pathway and regulate compound leaf and flower development in lotus japonicas

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Type One Protein Phosphatase 1 and Its Regulatory Protein Inhibitor 2 Negatively Regulate ABA Signaling.

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The Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein MBD7 Facilitates Active DNA Demethylation to Limit DNA Hyper-Methylation and Transcriptional Gene Silencing

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Roles of small RNAs in soybean defense against Phytophthorasojae infection

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14. Ji L, Liu X, Yan J , Wang W, Yumul RE, Kim YJ, Dinh TT, Liu J, Cui X, Zheng B, Agarwal M, Liu C, Cao X, Tang G, Chen X.

ARGONAUTE10 and ARGONAUTE1 regualte the termination of floral stem cells through two microRNAs in Arabidopsis.

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