“…The increasing severity of drought stress is threatening the sustain- Primary root development miR165/166 (HD-ZIP IIIs), miR169 (NF-YA2, 10) (Singh et al, 2014(Singh et al, , 2020Sorin et al, 2014) Lateral root development miR156 (SPL3, SPL9, SPL10), miR164 (NAC1), miR167 (ARF6, ARF8, IAR3, miR390 (TAS3), miR393 (TIR1-NAC1 (Lu et al, 2018;Meng et al, 2011;Yu et al, 2015)…”