*3.6. Prediction of lncRNAs as Endogenous Target Mimics of miRNAs*

Recent research has indicated that lncRNAs interact with miRNAs as competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) and participate in expression regulation of targets [58,59]. The potential lncRNAs were predicted to be eTM miRNAs using *S. lycopersicum* miRNAs which were previously obtained from miRbase (http://www.mirbase.org/, accessed on 26 July 2019).

The miRNAs that interacted with both mRNAs and lncRNAs were selected from the WGCNA results to make lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA triplets (Table S15). A weight value greater than 0.15 was used to select the lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA triplets (Table S16). Cytoscape was used to plot the interactions between lncRNAs, miRNAs, and mRNAs (Figure 10).

**Figure 10.** The interactions between lncRNAs, miRNAs, and mRNAs.
