Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin promoted carbohydrate accumulation in leaves, pod skins and grains.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- Melatonint0
- Outcome
- accumulation of soluble sugars, sucrose, fructose and starche0
- Direction
- accumulatione0
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Verbatim
e0“which were conducive to the accumulation of soluble sugars, sucrose, fructose and starch in the leaves, pod skins and grains.”
t0“Melatonin Increased Soybean Yield”
Title
Feng Ruiqi; Wang Weiyu; Du Yanli; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2025. doi:10.1111/ppl.70378
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect SA stress significantly reduced growth, biomass and yield in both soybean cultivars.
- Intervention effect Melatonin significantly increased plant height, stem diameter, shoot dry weight and pod number under SA stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin significantly increased chlorophyll content, gas exchange and fluorescence parameters.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased sucrose and starch-metabolizing enzyme activity.
- Intervention effect Melatonin upregulated related gene expression in leaves, pod skins and grains.
- Mechanism Melatonin upregulated GmSWEETs and GmSUC2 expression and increased sucrose transport into grains.
- Intervention effect Melatonin promoted grain development and increased soybean yield under SA stress.