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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 66, Issue 3, Pages 681-694Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru373
Keywords
Abiotic stress; antioxidant; bermudagrass; melatonin; metabolites; reactive oxygen species; transcriptomic
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- Knowledge Innovative Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [55Y455446O0544]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [29Y429371O0437]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 'Hundred Talents Program' of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [54Y154761O01076, 29Y329631O0263]
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Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine), a well-known animal hormone, is also involved in plant development and abiotic stress responses. In this study, it is shown that exogenous application of melatonin conferred improved salt, drought, and cold stress resistances in bermudagrass. Moreover, exogenous melatonin treatment alleviated reactive oxygen species (ROS) burst and cell damage induced by abiotic stress; this involved activation of several antioxidants. Additionally, melatonin-pre-treated plants exhibited higher concentrations of 54 metabolites, including amino acids, organic acids, sugars, and sugar alcohols, than non-treated plants under abiotic stress conditions. Genome-wide transcriptomic profiling identified 3933 transcripts (2361 up-regulated and 1572 down-regulated) that were differentially expressed in melatonin-treated plants versus controls. Pathway and gene ontology (GO) term enrichment analyses revealed that genes involved in nitrogen metabolism, major carbohydrate metabolism, tricarboxylic acid (TCA)/org transformation, transport, hormone metabolism, metal handling, redox, and secondary metabolism were over-represented after melatonin pre-treatment. Taken together, this study provides the first evidence of the protective roles of exogenous melatonin in the bermudagrass response to abiotic stresses, partially via activation of antioxidants and modulation of metabolic homeostasis. Notably, metabolic and transcriptomic analyses showed that the underlying mechanisms of melatonin could involve major reorientation of photorespiratory and carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism.
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