Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin fully recovered germination in salt stressed alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- MTe0
- Outcome
- seed germinatione0
- Direction
- fully recoverede0
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Verbatim
e0“MT and its precursor 5-HT fully recovered seed germination while partially ameliorated seedling growth of salt-stressed alfalfa.”
Title
Ruonan Yu; Tiantian Zuo; Pengfei Diao; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2021. doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.702875
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Association Basal melatonin content correlated positively with salt tolerance across alfalfa varieties.
- Intervention effect 5-HT fully recovered germination in salt stressed alfalfa.
- Intervention effect Melatonin partially ameliorated salt stressed seedling growth.
- Intervention effect 5-HT partially ameliorated salt stressed seedling growth.
- Observation 5-HT differed from melatonin in growth amelioration under salinity.
- Intervention effect Salt stress stunted alfalfa growth in soil culture.
- Intervention effect Melatonin raised height, fresh weight and branching in salt stressed soil culture.
- Intervention effect Melatonin raised chlorophyll content in salt stressed soil culture.
- Observation MsPMTR1 was membrane localized.
- Intervention effect Silencing MsPMTR1 abolished melatonin growth amelioration under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Overexpression of MsPMTR1 improved growth under salt stress.
- Observation Nine pathway genes were specifically induced by melatonin relative to salt stress.
- Observation Melatonin responsive genes included metabolic and photosynthesis pathways.
- Observation Melatonin responsive genes also included several stress related proteins.
- Intervention effect NaCl repressed DRE, ARF and HD-ZF stress response genes.
- Intervention effect NaCl repressed MYB and REM stress response genes.
- Intervention effect Melatonin induced DRE, ARF and HD-ZF stress response genes.
- Intervention effect Melatonin induced MYB and REM stress response genes.