“…In rice, over 700 mature miRNAs have been identified in the genome (Tang and Chu, 2017 ) and at least 70 miRNAs respond to Magnaporthe oryzae (M. oryzae) infection, meaning that many miRNAs are involved in rice immunity (Li et al., 2014 ). Among them, 16 miRNAs have been characterized as fine regulators affecting rice blast resistance (Feng et al., 2021 ; Wang et al., 2021 ), as positive regulators, such as Osa‐miR1320, Osa‐miR160a, Osa‐miR162a, Osa‐miR166k‐h, Osa‐miR398b, and Osa‐miR7695 (Li et al., 2014 ; Li, Jeyakumar, et al., 2019b ; Quoc et al., 2019 ; Salvador‐Guirao et al., 2018 ; Sánchez‐Sanuy et al., 2019 ; Wang et al., 2021 ), or as negative regulators, such as Osa‐miR156, Osa‐miR164a, Osa‐miR167d, Osa‐miR168, Osa‐miR169a, Osa‐miR319b, Osa‐miR396, Osa‐miR444b.2, Osa‐miR1873, and Osa‐miR535 (Chandran et al., 2019 ; Li et al., 2017 ; Wang et al., 2016 , 2018 , 2021 ; Zhang et al., 2018 , 2020 ; Zhao et al., 2019 ; Zhou et al., 2019 ). Further investigation revealed that Osa‐miR535 targets the SQUAMOSA Promoter Binding Protein Like 14 ( OsSPL14 ) (Wang et al., 2021 ).…”