Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin improved tomato seedling shoot and root length and leaf area without salt.
- Taxon
- tomato seedlings
Solanum lycopersicume0e1
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Verbatim
e0“under non-saline conditions, application of melatonin (20 and 50 µM) improved plant growth, viz. shoot length, root length, shoot fresh weight (FW), root FW, shoot dry weight (DW), root DW and leaf area”
e1“However, tomato seedlings treated with NaCl”
Title
Manzer H. Siddiqui; Saud Alamri; Mutahhar Y. Al-Khaishany; et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2019. doi:10.3390/ijms20020353
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved tomato shoot and root fresh and dry weights without salt.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved chlorophyll, proline and soluble carbohydrate content without salt.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased CA and Rubisco activity without salt.
- Intervention effect NaCl enhanced chlorophyll degradation and electrolyte leakage in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect NaCl enhanced MDA and reactive oxygen species in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved tomato growth under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced electrolyte leakage, MDA and ROS levels under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin upregulated CA and Rubisco under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin upregulated antioxidant enzymes under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased nonenzymatic antioxidant levels under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased TSC, proline and P5CS activity under salt stress.
- Mechanism Melatonin may help maintain high GSH/GSSG and ASC/DHA ratios.