ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2023
Melatonin and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants.
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- Phytohormone-Mediated Regulation of Plant Cold Stress Tolerance: Signaling, Hormonal Crosstalk, and Translational Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Melatonin regulates growth, photosynthesis, and stress responses in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) under flooding stress.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Integrative physiological, metabolomic, and transcriptomic analyses provide new insights into potato drought stress response.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Effects of exogenous melatonin on photosynthesis physiology biochemistry of blue honeysuckle seedlings under saline-alkali stress.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Phytomelatonin as a key regulator of drought stress adaptation: signaling networks, microbial interactions, and biotechnological potential.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Exogenous melatonin mediates physiological and photosynthetic response mechanisms of maize cultivars under waterlogging stress.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Melatonin Improves Drought Stress Tolerance by Remodeling Lipid Metabolism inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Enhancing melatonin biosynthesis in crops through synthetic genetic circuits: A strategy for nutritional fortification in soybean and stress resistance in cotton.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Article
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- Exogenous melatonin promotes anthocyanin accumulation and coloration in Chinese plum peels.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Systemic role of melatonin in enhancing temperature stress tolerance in fenugreek: coordination of antioxidant defense, hormonal regulation, energy status, sulfur metabolism, and diosgenin pathway genes.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Molecular Regulation of Antioxidant Defense and Metabolic Reprogramming in Xiaozhan Rice Genotypes: Differential Roles of Salicylic Acid and Melatonin Under Salt Stress.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Article
- Structure, evolution, and roles of MYB transcription factors proteins in secondary metabolite biosynthetic pathways and abiotic stresses responses in plants: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- Melatonin: dual players mitigating drought-induced stress in tomatoes via modulation of phytohormones and antioxidant signaling cascades.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Role of Neurotransmitters (Biomediators) in Plant Responses to Stress.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Increasing food demand by the growing human population and declining crop productivity due to climate change affect global food security. To meet the challenges, developing improved crops that can tolerate abiotic stresses is a priority. Melatonin in plants, also known as phytomelatonin, is an active component of the various cellular mechanisms that alleviates oxidative damage in plants, hence supporting the plant to survive abiotic stress conditions. Exogenous melatonin strengthens this defence mechanism by enhancing the detoxification of reactive by-products, promoting physiological activities, and upregulating stress-responsive genes to alleviate damage during abiotic stress. In addition to its well-known antioxidant activity, melatonin protects against abiotic stress by regulating plant hormones, activating ER stress-responsive genes, and increasing protein homoeostasis, heat shock transcription factors and heat shock proteins. Under abiotic stress, melatonin enhances the unfolded protein response, endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation, and autophagy, which ultimately protect cells from programmed cell death and promotes cell repair resulting in increased plant survival.
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