Melatonin Improves Drought Stress Tolerance of Tomato by Modulating Plant Growth, Root Architecture, Photosynthesis, and Antioxidant Defense System.

Muhammad Ahsan, Altaf,; Rabia, Shahid,; Ming-Xun, Ren,; Safina, Naz,; Muhammad Mohsin, Altaf,; Latif Ullah, Khan,; Rahul Kumar, Tiwari,; Milan Kumar, Lal,; Muhammad Adnan, Shahid,; Ravinder, Kumar,; Muhammad Azher, Nawaz,; Mohammad Shah, Jahan,; Basit Latief, Jan,; Parvaiz, Ahmad,

doi:10.3390/antiox11020309

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Melatonin Improves Drought Stress Tolerance of Tomato by Modulating Plant Growth, Root Architecture, Photosynthesis, and Antioxidant Defense System.

Published in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) • Feb 3, 2022

Authors:

Altaf, Muhammad Ahsan

Shahid, Rabia

Ren, Ming-Xun

Abstract

Tomato is an important vegetable that is highly sensitive to drought (DR) stress which impairs the development of tomato seedlings. Recently, melatonin (ME) has emerged as a nontoxic, regulatory biomolecule that regulates plant growth and enhances the DR tolerance mechanism in plants. The present st...

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drought

gene expression

melatonin

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