... stresses [10,14,35-38] Wheat is the most widely grown crop, occupying 17% of all cultivated land and providing approximately 55% of the worlds carbohydrates [39], and is, therefore, of great economic ... 30 from Medicago truncatula, 22 from soybean, and 16 from sugarcane To date, wheat miRNAs have not been deposited in the miRNA registry Only recently, Zhang et al [25] predicted 16 miRNAs in wheat ... miR159 and miR390 are conserved in all lineages of land plants, including bryophytes, lycopods, ferns and monocots and dicots [26-28] This conservation makes it possible to identify homologs of known...