Claim · model-written summary
SlSNAT expression was threefold higher in OX-2.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- OX-2e0
- Treatment
- SlSNAT overexpressione0
- Gene
- SlSNATe0
- Outcome
- SlSNAT expression levelse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 3-e0
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Verbatim
e0“SlSNAT expression levels were 3- and 5-fold higher in SlSNAT overexpression lines OX-2 and OX-6, respectively.”
t0“Tomato”
Title
Xiaoyun Wang; Haijun Zhang; Qian Xie; et al. Plant and Cell Physiology 2020. doi:10.1093/pcp/pcaa018
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Mechanism SlSNAT was identified as responsible for melatonin biosynthesis in tomato.
- Intervention effect SlSNAT expression was fivefold higher in OX-6.
- Intervention effect Melatonin levels were threefold higher in an SlSNAT overexpression line than wild type.
- Intervention effect Melatonin levels were fourfold higher in an SlSNAT overexpression line than wild type.
- Intervention effect Reducing SlSNAT expression to 40% decreased melatonin levels by 50%.
- Intervention effect SlSNAT overexpression significantly enhanced tomato thermotolerance and alleviated heat injury.
- Intervention effect SlSNAT overexpression improved PSII maximum photochemical quantum yield in tomato under heat stress.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin treatment decreased reactive oxygen species accumulation and Fv/Fm in tomato.
- Intervention effect SlSNAT overexpression decreased reactive oxygen species accumulation and Fv/Fm in tomato.
- Intervention effect The SlSNAT overexpression line protected Rubisco proteins under heat stress.
- Intervention effect The SlSNAT overexpression line upregulated heat transcription factors and heat shock proteins under heat stress.
- Observation HSP40 interacted with SlSNAT in tomato chloroplasts.
- Intervention effect HSP40 downregulation lowered melatonin synthesis under heat stress.
- Mechanism HSP40 is proposed to protect SNAT during melatonin synthesis under heat stress.