Claim · model-written summary
NaCl treatment significantly elevated proline, soluble sugars and soluble proteins in alfalfa compared with normal growth.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- NaCl treatmente1
- Outcome
- proline, soluble sugars, and soluble proteinse1
- Direction
- elevatede1
- Comparator
- normal growthe2
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Verbatim
t0“alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)”
e1“Osmoregulatory substances such as proline, soluble sugars, and soluble proteins were significantly elevated by NaCl treatment”
e2“Two types of alfalfa with different salt tolerances under normal growth (0 mmol·L-1 NaCl)”
Title
Exogenous melatonin increases alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) tolerance to salt stress
Yixin Liu; Xinyao Wang; Xiaoqing Sui; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2026. doi:10.1186/s12870-026-08344-w
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect MT treatment increased plant height, leaf area and root morphology of alfalfa.
- Intervention effect MT treatment repaired chloroplast damage in alfalfa.
- Intervention effect MT treatment further increased proline, soluble sugars and soluble proteins after NaCl stress.
- Intervention effect MT inhibited lipid peroxidation, membrane defects and ROS accumulation induced by NaCl stress.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress decreased the K+ concentration in alfalfa.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress increased the Na+ concentration in alfalfa.
- Intervention effect MT treatment reversed the NaCl-induced changes in K+ and Na+ levels.
- Intervention effect MT treatment increased antioxidant enzyme activities and antioxidant nonenzymatic substances.
- Intervention effect MT treatment inhibited the degradation of leaf SPAD values in alfalfa.
- Intervention effect MT treatment promoted photosynthetic gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters.
- Intervention effect 150 µmol·L-1 MT was the most effective treatment for inhibiting salt stress among the tested MT concentrations.
- Recommendation Salt-tolerant and salt-sensitive alfalfa can be sprayed with MT to improve NaCl tolerance (recommendation).