Furthermore, DEL‐associated cis‐target genes (e.g., RLKs, STS, ROMT, OPR and CML) were more highly expressed in SY (Figures S5c and S6e), implicating lncRNAs in the transcriptional regulation of defence pathways. This evidence concerns the gene STS and chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive.