@Article{phyton.2021.015239,
AUTHOR = {Kapil Gupta, Sujit Kumar Mishra, Shubhra Gupta, Saurabh Pandey, Jogeswar Panigrahi, Shabir Hussain Wani},
TITLE = {Functional Role of miRNAs: Key Players in Soybean Improvement},
JOURNAL = {Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany},
VOLUME = {90},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {5},
PAGES = {1339--1362},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/phyton/v90n5/42622},
ISSN = {1851-5657},
ABSTRACT = {Soybean (<i>Glycine max</i> (L.) Merr) is an agro-economic crop growing across the world to cater nutrition for both
human and animal feed due to the high oil and protein content in its edible seeds. The genes and QTLs associated
with important agronomic traits in this crop have already been identified and validated for soybean cyst nematode
(SCN), <i>Phytophthora</i> root and stem rot, <i>Pythium</i> root rot and aphid resistance, seed quality, nutrient values, and
also employed for genetic improvement in soybean. In the last decade, micro RNAs (miRNAs) have been considered the effector molecules, so the detection and characterization of novel miRNAs in soybean have been taken
up by several workers. The advancement in the strategy of sequencing and tools of bioinformatics during last
decade has contributed to the discovery of many soybean miRNAs, thus miRNA can be used as a tool in molecular
breeding studies, and this has opened new vistas for miRNA mediated genetic improvement of soybean to augment
crop productivity as well as nutritional quality. This review addresses the current state of understanding of miRNAmediated stress responses, nutrient acquisition, plant development and crop production processes in soybean.},
DOI = {10.32604/phyton.2021.015239}
}