Abstract
Acid rain is a serious worldwide environmental problem which reduces the growth and yield of crops. Melatonin, as a pleiotropic molecule has been known to improve stress tolerance by limiting the oxidative damage of plants exposed to adverse environments. However, the role of exogenous melatonin particularly on the yield and antioxidant compounds in tomato fruits under abiotic stress condition remains inexpressible. This observation aims to identify the influence of melatonin treatment under simulated acid rain (SAR) condition on fruit qualities, phenolics, flavonoids, and carotenoids concentration in fruits, and yield of tomatoes. Our study results showed that the fruits of SAR-stressed plants had higher quality traits and antioxidant bioactive compounds by increasing antioxidant activities against SAR-induced oxidative stress compared with fruits of control plants. Nonetheless, these improvements to antioxidant activities in fruits under SAR-condition remained unable to prevent the reduction of the yield. However, SAR-stressed plants treated by melatonin exhibited upgradation on the fruit quality traits, antioxidant compounds and yield attributes through accelerating oxidant-scavenging antioxidant actions in fruits compared with fruits of SAR-stressed plants. Meanwhile, our results suggest that exogenous melatonin plays an important role in improvement of bioactive compounds and yield traits in tomato fruits through regulating antioxidant system.
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Claim · model-written summary
Simulated acid rain increased fruit quality traits and antioxidant compounds relative to control.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Organ / stage
- fruitse0
- Treatment
- SAR-stressede0
- Outcome
- quality traits and antioxidant bioactive compoundse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
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e0“the fruits of SAR-stressed plants had higher quality traits and antioxidant bioactive compounds by increasing antioxidant activities against SAR-induced oxidative stress compared with fruits of control plants”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Simulated acid rain reduced tomato yield despite antioxidant improvements.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- SAR-conditione0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- reductione0
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Verbatim
e0“these improvements to antioxidant activities in fruits under SAR-condition remained unable to prevent the reduction of the yield”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin improved fruit quality traits under simulated acid rain.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- fruitse0
- Treatment
- melatonine0
- Outcome
- fruit quality traitse0
- Direction
- upgradatione0
- Comparator
- SAR-stressed plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“SAR-stressed plants treated by melatonin exhibited upgradation on the fruit quality traits, antioxidant compounds and yield attributes through accelerating oxidant-scavenging antioxidant actions in fruits compared with fruits of SAR-stressed plants”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin improved fruit antioxidant compounds under simulated acid rain.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- fruitse0
- Treatment
- melatonine0
- Outcome
- antioxidant compoundse0
- Direction
- upgradatione0
- Comparator
- SAR-stressed plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“SAR-stressed plants treated by melatonin exhibited upgradation on the fruit quality traits, antioxidant compounds and yield attributes through accelerating oxidant-scavenging antioxidant actions in fruits compared with fruits of SAR-stressed plants”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin improved yield attributes under simulated acid rain.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- melatonine0
- Outcome
- yield attributese0
- Direction
- upgradatione0
- Comparator
- SAR-stressed plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“SAR-stressed plants treated by melatonin exhibited upgradation on the fruit quality traits, antioxidant compounds and yield attributes through accelerating oxidant-scavenging antioxidant actions in fruits compared with fruits of SAR-stressed plants”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors attribute fruit and yield improvements to regulation of the antioxidant system.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- exogenous melatonine0
- Outcome
- improvement of bioactive compounds and yield traitse0
- Qualifier
- regulating antioxidant systeme0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“exogenous melatonin plays an important role in improvement of bioactive compounds and yield traits in tomato fruits through regulating antioxidant system”
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