“…Further investigations on lncRNAs have supported their roles in a variety of key biological processes of plants similar to mammalian lncRNAs. In recent years, numerous lncRNAs responsive to biotic and abiotic stresses have been identified in many plant species [27,31,32,33,34]. For instance, a large number of lncRNAs responsive to nitrogen stresses, phosphate deficiency, osmotic and salt stress, cold stress, and drought stress etc., were mined in many plants via high-throughput sequencing technology [1,26,32,35,36], while many lncRNAs might be related to plant defense against fungi, bacteria, and virus pathogens [31,37,38,39,40,41].…”