Melatonin: a new plant hormone and/or a plant master regulator?

MB Arnao, J Hernández-Ruiz - Trends in Plant Science, 2019 - cell.com
Melatonin is a pleiotropic molecule with many diverse actions in plants. It is considered
primarily an antioxidant with important actions in the control of reactive oxygen and nitrogen …

Melatonin: A master regulator of plant development and stress responses

C Sun, L Liu, L Wang, B Li, C Jin… - Journal of Integrative …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Melatonin is a pleiotropic molecule with multiple functions in plants. Since the discovery of
melatonin in plants, numerous studies have provided insight into the biosynthesis …

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
Photosynthesis is a fundamental biosynthetic process in plants that can enhance carbon
absorption and increase crop productivity. Heat stress severely inhibits photosynthetic …

Exogenous melatonin induces drought stress tolerance by promoting plant growth and antioxidant defence system of soybean plants

M Imran, A Latif Khan, R Shahzad, M Aaqil Khan… - AoB Plants, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Melatonin is an indolamine bioactive molecule that regulates a wide range of physiological
processes during plant growth and enhances abiotic stress tolerance. Here we examined …

Ameliorative effect of melatonin improves drought tolerance by regulating growth, photosynthetic traits and leaf ultrastructure of maize seedlings

S Ahmad, I Muhammad, GY Wang, M Zeeshan… - BMC Plant …, 2021 - Springer
Background Melatonin is considered a potential plant growth regulator to enhance the
growth of plants and increase tolerance to various abiotic stresses. Nevertheless …

Melatonin alleviates heat-induced damage of tomato seedlings by balancing redox homeostasis and modulating polyamine and nitric oxide biosynthesis

MS Jahan, S Shu, Y Wang, Z Chen, M He, M Tao… - BMC Plant …, 2019 - Springer
Background Melatonin is a pleiotropic signaling molecule that plays multifarious roles in
plants stress tolerance. The polyamine (PAs) metabolic pathway has been suggested to …

An evolutionary view of melatonin synthesis and metabolism related to its biological functions in plants

DX Tan, RJ Reiter - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Plant melatonin research is a rapidly developing field. A variety of isoforms of melatonin's
biosynthetic enzymes are present in different plants. Due to the different origins, they exhibit …

Melatonin suppressed the heat stress-induced damage in wheat seedlings by modulating the antioxidant machinery

ZA Buttar, SN Wu, MB Arnao, C Wang, I Ullah, C Wang - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a pleiotropic signaling molecule that plays a
crucial role in the regulation of various environmental stresses, including heat stress (HS). In …

Alleviating effects of exogenous melatonin on salt stress in cucumber

T Zhang, Z Shi, X Zhang, S Zheng, J Wang, J Mo - Scientia Horticulturae, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is an important molecule in plants that
regulates growth and development and responds to abiotic stresses. In this study, we …

Exogenous melatonin alleviates salt stress by improving leaf photosynthesis in rice seedlings

F Yan, J Zhang, W Li, Y Ding, Q Zhong, X Xu… - Plant Physiology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Melatonin (MT), an important antioxidant existing in plants and animals, has been widely
reported to participate in the process of plants coping with stress. In this study, we …