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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 217, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112248
Keywords
Detoxification; Glutathione S-transferase; Imidacloprid; Melatonin; Oxidative stress; Photosynthesis
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- Scientific Research Foundation of Gansu Agricultural University [GAUKYQD2019-19]
- National Key R & D Program of China [2018YFD0201205]
- Agriculture Research System of China [CARS23C07]
- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science
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The study found that melatonin can help plants detoxify the pesticide imidacloprid by regulating antioxidant enzyme activity and the AsA-GSH cycle, reducing residue levels.
Melatonin (Mel), a powerful antioxidant that has the ability to regulate physiological and biochemical processes in plants under abiotic stresses. However, its roles in pesticide detoxification is poorly understood. Herein, selecting leaf spraying insecticide imidacloprid (IMD) as the model, we demonstrated the detoxification mechanism underlying root pretreatment of Mel on IMD in cucumber. IMD treatment affected the primary light conversion efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm), reduced the quantum yield, and increased hydrogen peroxide and superoxide anions contents as well as the levels of membrane lipid peroxidation, indicating that excessive IMD treatment induces oxidative stress. Nonetheless, by increasing the appropriate levels of exogenous Mel, the photosynthesis of cucumber under IMD treatment reached the control levels, effectively removing reactive oxygen species. Furthermore, the content and ratio of ascorbate (AsA) and glutathione (GSH) were decreased under IMD treatment; Mel treatment enhanced the AsA/DHA and GSH/GSSG ratios, as well as the activities of MDHAR, DHAR and GR, suggesting that Mel could alleviate oxidative stress of cucumber treated with IMD by regulating the ascorbic acid-glutathione cycle. Importantly, IMD degradation rate and glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity increased after Mel treatment. The levels of transcripts encoding antioxidant enzymes GPX and GST (GST1,2 and 3) were also increased, indicating that Mel accelerated IMD degradation. These results suggest that Mel plays an important role in the detoxification of IMD by promoting GST activity and transcription and the AsA-GSH cycle, thus providing an approach for plants to reduce IMD residue through the plant's own detoxification mechanism.
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