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

• Main Authors: Muhammad Ahsan Altaf (Author), Rabia Shahid (Author), Ming-Xun Ren (Author), Safina Naz (Author), Muhammad Mohsin Altaf (Author), Latif Ullah Khan (Author), Rahul Kumar Tiwari (Author), Milan Kumar Lal (Author), Muhammad Adnan Shahid (Author), Ravinder Kumar (Author), Muhammad Azher Nawaz (Author), Mohammad Shah Jahan (Author), Basit Latief Jan (Author), Parvaiz Ahmad (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...