Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin increased antioxidant enzyme activity under NaCl.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Melatonine0
- Outcome
- activity of the antioxidant enzymese0
- Direction
- increasinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Melatonin increased the antioxidant defense system in NaCl-stressed seedlings by increasing the activity of the antioxidant enzymes.”
t0“tomato”
Title
Abazar Ghorbani; Leila Pishkar; Kobra Valed Saravi; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2023. doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1135943
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased seedling height by 23.7% under NaCl.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased seedling biomass by 32.2% under NaCl.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved chlorophyll a by 137%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved chlorophyll b by 92.8%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved proline metabolism.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced superoxide anion radicals by 49.6%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced hydrogen peroxide by 31.4%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced malondialdehyde by 38%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced electrolyte leakage by 32.6%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved N metabolism under NaCl.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased endogenous NO content under NaCl.
- Intervention effect Melatonin upregulated enzymes implicated in N assimilation.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved ionic balance under NaCl.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced Na content under NaCl.
- Intervention effect Melatonin upregulated NHX1-4 expression.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased accumulation of P, N, and Ca.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased Mg accumulation.
- Intervention effect The NO scavenger cPTIO reversed beneficial melatonin effects.
- Mechanism Authors infer that endogenous NO mediates melatonin induced NaCl tolerance.