Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin treated tomatoes had higher water levels during drought.
- Taxon
- tomato plants
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- melatonin-treatede0
- Outcome
- water levelse0
- Direction
- highere0
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Verbatim
e0“melatonin-treated tomato plants had remarkably higher water levels, gas exchange activities, root system morphological parameters”
Title
Naveed Mushtaq; Shahid Iqbal; Faisal Hayat; et al. Life 2022. doi:10.3390/life12111922
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Melatonin treated tomatoes had higher gas exchange activities during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin treated tomatoes had higher root system morphological parameters during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin treated tomatoes accumulated more osmoprotectants during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin treated tomatoes had higher transcript levels of photosynthetic genes.
- Intervention effect Melatonin maintained photosynthetic physiology during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin maintained soluble protein content during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin maintained antioxidant capacity during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced electrolyte leakage during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced H2O2, MDA, and O2− levels during drought.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced antioxidant defense enzymes.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced antioxidant stress resistance gene transcript levels.