The role of melatonin in tomato stress response, growth and development

Q Xie, Y Zhang, Y Cheng, Y Tian, J Luo, Z Hu, G Chen - Plant Cell Reports, 2022 - Springer
… Chloroplasts and mitochondria are the main organelles of melatonin biosynthesis in plants.
… The melatonin content in tomato plants engineered to have melatonin biosynthesis gene …

Overexpression of the Melatonin Synthesis-Related Gene SlCOMT1 Improves the Resistance of Tomato to Salt Stress

DD Liu, XS Sun, L Liu, HD Shi, SY Chen, DK Zhao - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
… In this study, a melatonin biosynthesis-related SlCOMT1 gene was cloned from … In the
current study, wild-type and transgenic tomato plants were treated using 800 mM NaCl. One week …

HsfA1a upregulates melatonin biosynthesis to confer cadmium tolerance in tomato plants

SY Cai, Y Zhang, YP Xu, ZY Qi, MQ Li… - Journal of pineal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… has direct control of the biosynthesis of melatonin which eventually alters tolerance to Cd
in … regulator of melatonin biosynthesis that greatly influences Cd tolerance in tomato plants. …

Melatonin promotes carotenoid biosynthesis in an ethylene-dependent manner in tomato fruits

Q Sun, L Liu, L Zhang, H Lv, Q He, L Guo, X Zhang… - Plant Science, 2020 - Elsevier
… treatment of normal and ethylene-insensitive Nr mutant tomato plants. … of ethylene in
melatonin-induced lycopene biosynthesis. Melatonin treatment of tomato resulted in substantially …

Growth conditions influence the melatonin content of tomato plants

MB Arnao, J Hernández-Ruiz - Food chemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
… conditions on the melatonin content of plants. In this … melatonin levels in roots, stems and
leaves of tomato plants, and … /s of melatonin biosynthesis and its mode of action in plant cells …

Understanding the mechanism of red light-induced melatonin biosynthesis facilitates the engineering of melatonin-enriched tomatoes

Z Zhang, X Zhang, Y Chen, W Jiang, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… We found that when tomato plants were provided with red light supplementation, the
expression of SlASMT7, SlASMT5, and SlCOMT2 was induced, and the content of …

Jasmonate and melatonin act synergistically to potentiate cold tolerance in tomato plants

F Ding, L Ren, F Xie, M Wang, S Zhang - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… To answer this question, we treated tomato plants with MeJA and a JA biosynthesis inhibitor
(… that JA may have a crucial role in the biosynthesis of MT in tomato plants under cold stress. …

Melatonin promotes ripening and improves quality of tomato fruit during postharvest life

Q Sun, N Zhang, J Wang, H Zhang, D Li… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… of melatonin on the postharvest ripening of tomato fruit, and revealed the mechanism of
melatonin on ethylene biosynthesis… The tomato plant used in this study, variety “Bmei”, is a cherry …

Melatonin-mediated photosynthetic performance of tomato seedlings under high-temperature stress

MS Jahan, S Guo, J Sun, S Shu, Y Wang… - Plant Physiology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… indices, in the leaves of tomato plants treated with or without melatonin under heat stress. …
treatments, the mRNA levels of these melatonin biosynthesis genes were upregulated in the …

Melatonin mitigates chilling-induced oxidative stress and photosynthesis inhibition in tomato plants

M Wang, S Zhang, F Ding - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
… temperature-stressed tomato plants, we generated melatonin-deficient tomato plants using
a … oxidative stress in tomato plants, we silenced the melatonin biosynthetic gene TDC using …