“…By means of transgenic approaches it was established 9 that miR167 acts as transcriptional regulator in response to bacterial infection (Jodder, Basak, Das & Kundu, 2017) and temperature-induced stress in tomato plants (Jodder et al, 2018). Multiple evidences obtained by both sRNA-sequencing and transgenic approaches, support the role of members of the miR319-family, an ancient miRNA conserved across plant species ranging from mosses to higher plants, as a key modulator of the plant-environment interrelation (at biotic and abiotic level) in monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous species (Bustamante et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2019;Shi et al, 2019;Wu, Qi, Meng & Jin, 2020;Fang et al, 2021;Joshi, Chauhan & Das, 2021). Finally, regarding miR398 and miR408 families, it was recently proposed that these conserved miRNAs, involved in the maintenance of the cooper homeostasis in plants, might be also involved in the systemic signaling of the response to biotic and abiotic stresses (Burkhead et al, 2009;Sanz-Carbonell, Marques, Martinez & Gomez, 2020).…”