The invention relates to a method for detecting miRNA (micro
Ribose Nucleic Acid) by an improved stem-lop primer qRT-PCR (Quantitative
Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction). The method comprises the steps: (1), designing a miRNA detection primer, wherein a stem-loop primer comprises two parts of a general
stem loop sequence and a specific primer sequence which is in complementary
pairing with a 3' end of a target miRNA, a
base number which is in complementary
pairing with the target miRNA is 11bp, a downstream primer needle of qPCR is specific to a general
stem loop sequence, an upstream primer needle is specific to a 5' end of the target miRNA, a GC
tail is added in the 5' end of the upstream primer so that the annealing temperatures of the upstream primer and the downstream primer are close; (2), performing inverse transcription on the target miRNA into cDNA (complementary Desoxvribose
Nucleic Acid); and (3), performing a quantitative PCR amplification and detecting by adopting an SYBR Green qPCR detection method. The method disclosed by the invention is good in specificity, and high in sensitivity; and one downstream primer is only synthesized, and an
SYBR Green I fluorochrome method is adopted, and thus the cost is greatly saved.