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Melatonin improved photosynthetic activity of salt stressed green bean seedlings.
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e0“The application of exogenous MT to green bean seedlings under salt stress improved photosynthetic activity and alleviated the oxidative damages by enhancing the activity of antioxidant enzymes.”
Title
Abdelaleim Ismail ElSayed; Mohammed Suhail Rafudeen; Ayman M. Gomaa; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.1111/ppl.13372
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Salt stress lowered chlorophyll content and photosynthetic activity in green bean seedlings.
- Intervention effect Salt stress increased reactive oxygen species content.
- Intervention effect Salt stress decreased photosystem II activity.
- Intervention effect Melatonin alleviated oxidative damage under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced antioxidant enzyme activity under salt stress.
- Observation Salt stress significantly increased expression of six antioxidant defense genes relative to untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised CuZnSOD transcript levels by 28.8% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised CAT1 transcript levels by 21.1% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised APX transcript levels by 26.1% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised GR transcript levels by 20% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised PrxQ transcript levels by 26.2% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised 2-Cys-Prx transcript levels by 22.4% versus NaCl alone.
- Recommendation The findings were proposed for management of green bean in saline soils.