Drought responsive microRNAs in cardamom

Plant miRNAs are found to be present throughout the genome and they regulate gene expression either by cleaving mRNA or inhibiting the translational process at the post transcriptional level. Drought is one of the major limiting factors that negatively affects productivity of plants. Cardamom cultivation is having good production potential but the plants are vulnerable to biotic and abiotic stress factors. To date, nothing is known about the regulatory roles of miRNAs in response to drought stress in cardamom.