“…Evidence for targets of miR530 have been varied in the literature; for example, predicted miR530 target ARGONAUTE1 (Shao & Lu, 2013;Sunitha et al, 2019) has not been established experimentally. Yang, Du et al (2015) claimed miR530 targets Knotted-Like1 in poplar, and we previously documented slicing activity for Ribosomal protein L10A and zinc knuckle Plus-3 domain/PL3 in grapevine (Sunitha et al, 2019), where PL3 homologues predicted in poplar and chickpea (Kohli et al, 2014;Lu et al, 2008) have been validated in strawberry, rice, poplar, and Kalanchoë marnieriana (Ding et al, 2022;Hu et al, 2021;Sun et al, 2020;Xia et al, 2015). These convergent evidences support the PL3 gene family as a canonical miR530 target, supporting our finding of four degradome-supported zinc knuckle/Plus3 domain target genes (7CP98C, TEF2FC, YIX0R7, SM0BS0; Supporting Information S4a).…”