Melatonin ameliorates thermotolerance in soybean seedling through balancing redox homeostasis and modulating antioxidant defense, phytohormones and …

M Imran, M Aaqil Khan, R Shahzad, S Bilal, M Khan… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Global warming is impacting the growth and development of economically important but
sensitive crops, such as soybean (Glycine max L.). Using pleiotropic signaling molecules …

Melatonin confers fenugreek tolerance to salinity stress by stimulating the biosynthesis processes of enzymatic, non-enzymatic antioxidants, and diosgenin content

M Mohamadi Esboei, A Ebrahimi… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Salinity-induced stress is widely considered a main plant-growth-limiting factor. The positive
effects of melatonin in modulating abiotic stresses have led this hormone to be referred to as …

Melatonin: a vital pro-tectant for crops against heat stress: mechanisms and prospects

MU Hassan, RY Ghareeb, M Nawaz, A Mahmood… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heat stress (HS) is a serious environmental stress that negatively affects crop growth and
productivity across the globe. The recent increase in atmospheric temperature caused by …

Melatonin induction and its role in high light stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

HY Lee, K Back - Journal of Pineal Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In plants, melatonin is a potent bioactive molecule involved in the response against various
biotic and abiotic stresses. However, little is known of its defensive role against high light …

Melatonin accumulation in sweet cherry and its influence on fruit quality and antioxidant properties

H Xia, Y Shen, T Shen, X Wang, X Zhang, P Hu… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Although the effects of melatonin on plant abiotic and biotic stress resistance have been
explored in recent decades, the accumulation of endogenous melatonin in plants and its …

Melatonin-induced transcriptome variation of rapeseed seedlings under salt stress

X Tan, W Long, L Zeng, X Ding, Y Cheng… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Salt stress inhibits the production of all crop species, including rapeseed (Brassica napus
L.), the second most widely planted oil crop species. Although melatonin was confirmed to …

Melatonin mitigates cadmium phytotoxicity through modulation of phytochelatins biosynthesis, vacuolar sequestration, and antioxidant potential in Solanum …

MK Hasan, GJ Ahammed, L Yin, K Shi, X Xia… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Melatonin is a ubiquitous signal molecule, playing crucial roles in plant growth and stress
tolerance. Recently, toxic metal cadmium (Cd) has been reported to regulate melatonin …

ROS and NO regulation by melatonin under abiotic stress in plants

M Pardo-Hernández, M López-Delacalle, RM Rivero - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Abiotic stress in plants is an increasingly common problem in agriculture, and thus, studies
on plant treatments with specific compounds that may help to mitigate these effects have …

Exogenous melatonin protects lime plants from drought stress-induced damage by maintaining cell membrane structure, detoxifying ROS and regulating antioxidant …

M Jafari, AR Shahsavar, M Talebi, M Hesami - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lime is an important commercial product in tropical and subtropical regions, where drought
stress is becoming one of the most severe environmental challenges in the agricultural …

Exogenous melatonin improves salt stress adaptation of cotton seedlings by regulating active oxygen metabolism

D Jiang, B Lu, L Liu, W Duan, L Chen, J Li, K Zhang… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Melatonin is a small-molecule indole hormone that plays an important role in participating in
biotic and abiotic stress resistance. Melatonin has been confirmed to promote the normal …