Functions of melatonin in plants: a review

By M. B. Arnao, J. Hernández-Ruiz. Journal of Pineal Research, 2015

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Subfields: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Plant Science

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Exogenous melatonin improves salt tolerance in tomato by regulating photosynthetic electron flux and the ascorbate–glutathione cycle (2019, background): “MT is a natural antioxidant that can effectively scavenge ROS in animals and plants (Arnao and Hernández-Ruiz 2015).”
Growth activity, rooting capacity, and tropism: three auxinic precepts fulfilled by melatonin (2017, background): “Although IAA and melatonin share tryptophan as a precursor in their respective biosynthetic pathways, to date, no conclusive data have been presented to confirm metabolic inter-conversion between melatonin and IAA in plants (Arnao and Hernández-Ruiz 2015).”
Melatonin increased maize (Zea mays L.) seedling drought tolerance by alleviating drought-induced photosynthetic inhibition and oxidative damage (2016, neutral): “A commonly proposed explanation for melatonin's beneficial effect on plant stress tolerance is that it enhances plant antioxidant ability (Arnao and Hernández-Ruiz 2015; Zhang et al. 2015).”
Combined Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Exogenous Melatonin Alleviates Drought Stress and Improves Plant Growth in Tobacco Seedlings (2020, background): “To date, a number of studies have strongly asserted that melatonin could be a promising compound for the reduction of environmental stresses in plants, especially drought stress (Arnao and Hernández-Ruiz 2014, 2015; Shi et al.”
Melatonin and reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: a model for the plant redox network (2019, background): “A few years later, many of the actions that melatonin has in plants such as germination, growth and rooting promoter, and also as a foliar senescence retardant were demonstrated, mainly in stress conditions (6).”
Is Phytomelatonin a New Plant Hormone? (2020, background): “Although there are data on the role of phytomelatonin as a chronoregulator in plants [41,111], this piece of the puzzle between biological clock nd redox network, i yet to be confirmed experimentally, w th researchers currently in its study.”
Effect of melatonin priming on photosynthetic capacity of tomato leaves under low-temperature stress (2018, background): “…stress produce a significant increase in endogenous melatonin contents, and endogenous circadian rhythms in melatonin concentrations has been demonstrated in some species (Arnao and Hernández-Ruiz 2015), but the involvement of endogenous melatonin in regulating photosynthesis is still unknown.”
Relationship of Melatonin and Salicylic Acid in Biotic/Abiotic Plant Stress Responses (2018, background): “in non-sterilized Lupinus albus seeds [17].”
Foliar application of melatonin induces tolerance to drought stress in Moldavian balm plants (Dracocephalum moldavica) through regulating the antioxidant system (2018, background): “The level of melatonin in plants varies from one species to another, and also among varieties of a species (Arnao, 2014; Arnao and Hernandez-Ruiz, 2015).”
Melatonin: an ancient molecule that makes oxygen metabolically tolerable (2015, background): “While originally thought to be produced exclusively in and secreted from the vertebrate pineal gland [53], it is now known that the indole is present in many, perhaps all, vertebrate organs [54] and in organs of all plants that have been investigated [48, 55, 56].”