Heavy metal transporters: Functional mechanisms, regulation, and application in phytoremediation

Z Yang, F Yang, JL Liu, HT Wu, H Yang, Y Shi… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal pollution in soil is a global problem with serious impacts on human health and
ecological security. Phytoextraction in phytoremediation, in which plants uptake and …

Melatonin modulates plant tolerance to heavy metal stress: morphological responses to molecular mechanisms

MN Hoque, M Tahjib-Ul-Arif, A Hannan… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Heavy metal toxicity is one of the most devastating abiotic stresses. Heavy metals cause
serious damage to plant growth and productivity, which is a major problem for sustainable …

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 …

Melatonin and strigolactone mitigate chromium toxicity through modulation of ascorbate-glutathione pathway and gene expression in tomato

V Raja, SU Qadir, N Kumar, AA Alsahli… - Plant Physiology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is considered one of the most hazardous metal contaminant reducing crop
production and putting human health at risk. Phytohormones are known to regulate …

Functions of melatonin during postharvest of horticultural crops

MS Aghdam, S Mukherjee, FB Flores… - Plant and Cell …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Melatonin, a tryptophan-derived molecule, is endogenously generated in animal, plant,
fungal and prokaryotic cells. Given its antioxidant properties, it is involved in a myriad of …

Advances in “omics” approaches for improving toxic metals/metalloids tolerance in plants

A Raza, J Tabassum, Z Zahid, S Charagh… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Food safety has emerged as a high-urgency matter for sustainable agricultural production.
Toxic metal contamination of soil and water significantly affects agricultural productivity …

Metal tolerance mechanisms in plants and microbe-mediated bioremediation

M Narayanan, Y Ma - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The heavy metal contamination, which causes toxic effects on plants, has evolved into a
significant constraint to plant quality and yield. This scenario has been exacerbated by …

Exogenous melatonin alleviates cadmium-induced inhibition of growth and photosynthesis through upregulating antioxidant defense system in strawberry

M Saqib, U Shahzad, F Zulfiqar, RK Tiwari… - South African Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contamination by heavy metals has severely hampered agricultural productivity across the
world. Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most dangerous heavy metals to plants. Melatonin (ME) …

Melatonin mitigates drought induced oxidative stress in potato plants through modulation of osmolytes, sugar metabolism, ABA homeostasis and antioxidant enzymes

AA El-Yazied, MFM Ibrahim, MAR Ibrahim, IN Nasef… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The effect of melatonin (MT) on potato plants under drought stress is still unclear in the
available literature. Here, we studied the effect of MT as a foliar application at 0, 0.05, 0.1 …

[HTML][HTML] Phytomelatonin: A key regulator of redox and phytohormones signaling against biotic/abiotic stresses

MSS Khan, S Ahmed, A ul Ikram, F Hannan, MU Yasin… - Redox Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Plants being sessile in nature, are exposed to unwarranted threats as a result of constantly
changing environmental conditions. These adverse factors can have negative impacts on …