Melatonin-mediated temperature stress tolerance in plants

A Raza, S Charagh, P García-Caparrós… - GM Crops & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Global climate changes cause extreme temperatures and a significant reduction in crop
production, leading to food insecurity worldwide. Temperature extremes (including both heat …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Melatonin and abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

R Colombage, MB Singh, PL Bhalla - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Increasing food demand by the growing human population and declining crop productivity
due to climate change affect global food security. To meet the challenges, develo** …

Toxic effects of microplastics in plants depend more by their surface functional groups than just accumulation contents

Z Xu, Y Zhang, L Lin, L Wang, W Sun, C Liu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Differentially charged microplastics (MPs) engendered by plastic aging (eg, plastic film)
widely existed in the agricultural ecosystem, yet minimal was known about the toxic effects of …

Melatonin-induced protection against plant abiotic stress: mechanisms and prospects

MU Hassan, A Mahmood, MI Awan… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Global warming in this century increases incidences of various abiotic stresses restricting
plant growth and productivity and posing a severe threat to global food production and …

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 …

Crosstalk between melatonin and reactive oxygen species in plant abiotic stress responses: an update

Q Gu, Q **ao, Z Chen, Y Han - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Melatonin acts as a multifunctional molecule that takes part in various physiological
processes, especially in the protection against abiotic stresses, such as salinity, drought …