Abstract
It has been suggested that melatonin acts as an important regulator in controlling root growth and development, but the underlying molecular mechanism driving this relationship remains undetermined. In this study, we demonstrated that melatonin acts as a potent molecule to govern root architecture in rice. Treatments with melatonin significantly inhibited embryonic root growth, and promoted lateral root formation and development. Genome-wide expression profiling by RNA-sequencing revealed auxin-related genes were significantly activated under melatonin treatment. Moreover, several transcription factors and candidate cis-regulatory elements involved in root growth and developments, as well as auxin-related processes, were over-represented in both co-up and -down differentially expressed genes, suggesting that melatonin-mediated root growth occurs in an auxin signal pathway-dependent manner. Further, gravitropic response analysis determined that melatonin affects auxin-regulated processes in rice root. These data show that melatonin shapes root architecture by directly or indirectly activating the auxin signaling pathway.
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Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin significantly inhibited embryonic root growth in rice.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativae1 - Treatment
- melatonine0
- Outcome
- embryonic root growthe0
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- inhibitede0
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e0“Treatments with melatonin significantly inhibited embryonic root growth”
e1“root architecture in rice”
Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin promoted lateral root formation and development in rice.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Treatment
- melatonine0
- Outcome
- lateral root formation and developmente0
- Direction
- promotede0
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e0“Treatments with melatonin significantly inhibited embryonic root growth, and promoted lateral root formation and development”
e1“root architecture in rice”
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Auxin-related genes were significantly activated under melatonin treatment.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Treatment
- melatonin treatmente0
- Outcome
- auxin-related genese0
- Direction
- activatede0
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e0“auxin-related genes were significantly activated under melatonin treatment”
e1“root architecture in rice”
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Transcription factors and candidate cis-regulatory elements related to root growth and auxin processes were over-represented in co-up and co-down differentially expressed genes.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Outcome
- transcription factors and candidate cis-regulatory elementse0
- Direction
- over-representede0
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e0“several transcription factors and candidate cis-regulatory elements involved in root growth and developments, as well as auxin-related processes, were over-represented in both co-up and -down differentially expressed genes”
e1“root architecture in rice”
Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin affected auxin-regulated processes in rice roots by gravitropic response analysis.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae0
- Organ / stage
- roote0
- Treatment
- melatonine0
- Outcome
- auxin-regulated processese0
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Verbatim
e0“gravitropic response analysis determined that melatonin affects auxin-regulated processes in rice root”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that melatonin shapes rice root architecture through direct or indirect activation of auxin signaling.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Treatment
- melatonine0
- Outcome
- root architecturee0
- Qualifier
- directly or indirectly activating the auxin signaling pathwaye0
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Verbatim
e0“melatonin shapes root architecture by directly or indirectly activating the auxin signaling pathway”
e1“root architecture in rice”
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