Type of Stress	miRNA biomarkers	Up regulated	Down regulated	References
Oxidative stress	miR398			Sunkar et al. 2006, Yamasaki et al. 2007, Jagadeeswaran et al. 2009, Kruszka et al. 2012
Drought stress	miR393, miR319, miR397			Sunkar and Zhu 2004
	miR169g, miR171a			Zhao et al. 2007, Jian et al. 2010, Zhou et al. 2010
	miR156,miR159,miR168, miR170, miR171, miR172, miR319, miR396,miR397, miR408, miR529, miR896, miR1030, miR1035, miR1050, miR1088, miR1126			Zhou et al. 2010
	miR159, miR169, miR171, miR319, miR395, miR474, miR845, miR851, miR854, miR896, miR901, miR903, miR1026, miR1125			Zhou et al. 2010
	miR159.2, miR393, miR2118			Arenas-Huertero et al. 2009
	miR398 a, b, miR408			Trindade et al. 2010
Salinity stress	miR169g, miR169n, miR169o, miR393			Zhao et al. 2009, Gao et al. 2011
	miR156, miR158, miR159, miR165, miR167, miR168, miR169, miR171, miR319, miR393, miR394, miR396, miR397			Liu et al. 2008
	miR398			Liu et al. 2008
Cold stress	miR165/166, miR169, miR172, miR393, miR396, miR397, miR408, miR168a,b and miR477a,b, miR319c			Zhou et al. 2008, Lu et al. 2008, Palatnik et al. 2007
Cold stress	miR156g-j, miR475a,b, miR476a			Lu et al. 2008
UV stress	miR159, miR169, miR393			Jia et al. 2009a
UV stress	miR156, miR159, miR160, miR165/166, miR167, miR169, miR170, miR172, miR393, miR398, miR401			Zhou et al. 2007b
Phosphate stress	miR399			Fujii et al. 2005, Chiou et al. 2006, Bari et al. 2006
Copper stress	miR395			Jones-Rhoades and Bartel 2004, Allen et al. 2005, Sunkar et al. 2007, Huang et al. 2010, Liang and Yu 2010
Sulfate stress	miR398			Yamasaki et al. 2007, Beauclair et al. 2010
Sulfate stress	miR397, miR408, miR857			Abdel-Ghany and Pilon 2008
Mechanical stress	miR156, miR162, miR164, miR475, miR480, miR481, miR160, miR172			Lu et al. 2005, Khraiwesh et al. 2012
Mechanical stress	miR408, miR168			Lu et al. 2005, Khraiwesh et al. 2012
Heat stress	miR156, miR159, miR160, miR166, miR168, miR169, miR393, miR827			Xin et al. 2010
Heat stress	miR172			Xin et al. 2010