As plant miR162 exhibits a remarkable conservation across diverse species of dicots and monocots (Figure 1A) and the insect TOR gene also shows a high similarity in sequence and function [28,35], we hypothesized that the NlTOR gene of BPH may also be targeted by rice osa-miR162a, which has an identical sequence to bra-miR162a (Figure 1A). This evidence concerns the gene RORC and benign prostatic hyperplasia.