Plants' physio-biochemical and phyto-hormonal responses to alleviate the adverse effects of drought stress: A comprehensive review

A Wahab, G Abdi, MH Saleem, B Ali, S Ullah, W Shah… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water, a necessary component of cell protoplasm, plays an essential role in supporting life
on Earth; nevertheless, extreme changes in climatic conditions limit water availability …

Melatonin-mediated abiotic stress tolerance in plants

W Zeng, S Mostafa, Z Lu, B Jin - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Melatonin is a multi-functional molecule that is ubiquitous in all living organisms. Melatonin
performs essential roles in plant stress tolerance; its application can reduce the harmful …

Melatonin improves drought stress tolerance of tomato by modulating plant growth, root architecture, photosynthesis, and antioxidant defense system

MA Altaf, R Shahid, MX Ren, S Naz, MM Altaf, LU Khan… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tomato is an important vegetable that is highly sensitive to drought (DR) stress which
impairs the development of tomato seedlings. Recently, melatonin (ME) has emerged as a …

Melatonin enhanced the heavy metal-stress tolerance of pepper by mitigating the oxidative damage and reducing the heavy metal accumulation

MA Altaf, Y Hao, H Shu, MA Mumtaz, S Cheng… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metals (HMs), like vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), and nickel (Ni)
toxicity due to anthropogenic, impair plant growth and yield, which is a challenging issue for …

Impacts, tolerance, adaptation, and mitigation of heat stress on wheat under changing climates

MR Yadav, M Choudhary, J Singh, MK Lal… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heat stress (HS) is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting the production and quality of
wheat. Rising temperatures are particularly threatening to wheat production. A detailed …

Insight into melatonin-mediated response and signaling in the regulation of plant defense under biotic stress

RK Tiwari, MK Lal, R Kumar, V Mangal, MA Altaf… - Plant molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Melatonin plays a crucial role in the mitigation of plant biotic stress through
induced defense responses and pathogen attenuation. Utilizing the current knowledge of …

Phytomelatonin: an unexpected molecule with amazing performances in plants

MB Arnao, A Cano… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phytomelatonin, a multifunctional molecule that has been found to be present in all plants
examined to date, has an important role in plants as a modulatory agent (a biostimulator) …

Melatonin: first-line soldier in tomato under abiotic stress current and future perspective

MA Altaf, R Shahid, MM Altaf, R Kumar, S Naz… - Plant Physiology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Melatonin is a natural, multifunctional, nontoxic, regulatory, and ubiquitous biomolecule,
having low molecular weight and pleiotropic effects in the plant kingdom. It is a recently …

Mechanistic insights on melatonin-mediated plant growth regulation and hormonal cross-talk process in solanaceous vegetables

MA Altaf, N Sharma, J Singh, MK Samota… - Scientia …, 2023 - Elsevier
In horticultural crop production, the use of plant growth regulators has become a common
practice for improvement of produce quality and mitigation of abiotic and biotic stresses. In …

Molecular insights into the role of reactive oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur species in conferring salinity stress tolerance in plants

V Mangal, MK Lal, RK Tiwari, MA Altaf, S Sood… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2023 - Springer
Salinity stress is the major abiotic stress that affects crop production and productivity as it
has a multifarious negative effect on the growth and development of the plant. Salinity stress …