Melatonin: A potential regulator of plant growth and development?

By S. Murch, P. Saxena. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2002

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Thidiazuron: A multi-dimensional plant growth regulator (2011, background): “Biosynthesis of melatonin occurs in the epiphysis of mammals (Murch and Saxena, 2002; Chen et al., 2003; Kolar and Machackova, 2005).”
Phytomelatonin: Discovery, Content, and Role in Plants (2014, unknown): “This was the first experimental data that clearly demonstrated the auxinic role of melatonin, although, several authors had previously proposed the possible role of melatonin as a plant regulator [61–63].”
Functions of melatonin in plants: a review (2015, background): “similarity and the common biosynthetic pathway between IAA and melatonin led to suggestions of possible functional similarities between these two indolic molecules [121].”
Melatonin in plants (2008, background): “However, Murch and Saxena (2002) suggested that alternatively IAA could be also synthesized from tryptamine catalyzed by tryptamine deaminase (TDA) and this intermediate is directly connected with serotonin and MEL biosynthesis, too (Fig.1).”
Melatonin and reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: a model for the plant redox network (2019, background): “Surprisingly, the number of genes regulated directly or indirectly due to exogenous melatonin in plant tissues far exceeds all the expectations suggested in the 2000-2005, when only a curious chemical similarity with auxin was established (66, 67).”