Mirnas From Cotton Roots Infected with Meloidogyne incognita

Small RNAs or microRNAs (miRNA), a well-conserved gene regulatory system, have an important role in biotic and abiotic stress responses and epigenetic regulation primarily through transcriptional and post-transcriptional silencing of specific target genes.  Various miRNA families were reported to be differentially expressed in response to infection by pests and pathogens.  We have isolated and sequenced some of the potential miRNAs from the roots of root-knot nematode infected resistant and susceptible cotton lines.  We will present this report in this poster.