文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Jahan, Mohammad Shah ¹ ; Li, Guihua ¹ ; Xie, Dasen ¹ ; Farag, Reham ³ ; Hasan, Md. Mahadi ⁴ ; Alabdallah, Nadiyah M. ⁵ ; Al-Harbi, Nadi Awad ⁷ ; Al-Qahtani, Salem Mesfir ⁷ ; Zeeshan, Muhammad ⁸ ; Nasar, Jamal ⁸ ; Altaf, Muhammad Ahsan ⁹ ; Rahman, Md Atikur ¹⁰ ;

作者机构： 1.Guangdong Acad Agr Sci, Vegetable Res Inst, Guangdong Key Lab New Technol Res Vegetables, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China

2.Sher Ebangla Agr Univ, Fac Agr, Dept Hort, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh

3.Ain Shams Univ, Fac Agr, Dept Agr Bot, Cairo 11566, Egypt

4.Lanzhou Univ, Coll Ecol, State Key Lab Grassland Agroecosyst, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China

5.Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univ, Coll Sci, Dept Biol, POB 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia

6.Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univ, Basic & Appl Sci Res Ctr, POB 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia

7.Univ Tabuk, Univ Coll Tayma, Biol Dept, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

8.Guangxi Univ, Coll Agr, Guangxi Key Lab Agroenvironm & Agroprod Safety, Key Lab Crop Cultivat & Physiol, Nanning 530004, Peoples R China

9.Hainan Univ, Sch Hort, Haikou 570228, Peoples R China

10.Rural Dev Adm, Natl Inst Anim Sci, Grassland & Forage Div, Cheonan 31000, South Korea

关键词： Salinity stress; Tomato; Na+; K+ homeostasis; Sugar transporter; Neurotransmitter; Climate change

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION （ 影响因子：3.9； 五年影响因子：3.9 ）

ISSN： 0718-9508

年卷期： 2023 年

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Soil salinization is a serious threat to agricultural production because it limits the growth and development of crops. Melatonin is a pleiotropic molecule widely used to alleviate abiotic stressors, including salt stress. The objective of the present study was to investigate the function of melatonin in metabolic processes related to the mitigation of salt-induced growth inhibition in tomato seedlings. The hydroponically grown tomato seedlings were foliar sprayed with 100 & mu;M melatonin and salt (NaCl) treatment was applied in tomato roots for 7 days. The experiment was composed of four treatments: (1) control; (2) melatonin (MT, 100 & mu;M); (3) salt (125 mM NaCl); and melatonin + NaCl (MT + salt, 100 & mu;M + 125 mM NaCl). The results revealed that melatonin treatment significantly mitigated salt-induced adverse effects as evidenced by higher biomass production, greater accumulation of K+, and lower content of Na+ in salt-stressed tomato leaves and roots, resulting in lower Na+/K+ ratio as compared with only salt-stressed seedlings. Melatonin application enhanced photosynthetic efficiency through the elevation of gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters values, along with the increment of carbon assimilation enzymes activity. Moreover, sucrose content and sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) activity were increased in melatonin-received tomato seedlings over to salt-stressed plants. Melatonin also regulates gene expression related to sugar transporters and carbohydrate metabolism in plants exposed to salinity stress. Additionally, plants treated with melatonin showed higher nitrate reductase and nitrate reductase activity by 78% and 62%, respectively, compared with plants under salt stress. Similarly, the nitrogen assimilation capacity (higher nitrate, NO3- level) was increased in melatonin treatment plants. Taken together, the present research findings indicate that melatonin attenuates salinity-caused growth inhibition through the coordination action of carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism and the balancing of Na+/K+ homeostasis in tomato seedlings.