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:Melatonin has long been recognized as a positive signaling molecule and potent antioxidant in plants, which alleviates damage caused by adverse conditions such as salt, cold, and heat stress. In this study, we found a paradoxical role for melatonin in abiotic stress responses. Suppression of the serotonin N-acetyltransferase 2 (snat2) gene encoding the penultimate enzyme in melatonin biosynthesis led to simultaneous decreases in both melatonin and brassinosteroid (BR) levels, causing a semi-dwarf with erect leaf phenotype, typical of BR deficiency. Here, we further characterized snat2 rice in terms of grain morphology and abiotic stress tolerance, to determine whether snat2 rice exhibited characteristics similar to those of BR-deficient rice. As expected, the snat2 rice exhibited tolerance to multiple stress conditions including cadmium, salt, cold, and heat, as evidenced by decreased malondialdehyde (MDA) levels and increased chlorophyll levels, in contrast with SNAT2 overexpression lines, which were less tolerant to stress than wild type plants. In addition, the length and width of grain from snat2 plants were reduced relative to the wild type, which is reminiscent of BR deficiency in rice. Other melatonin-deficient mutant rice lines with suppressed BR synthesis (i.e., comt and t5h) also showed tolerance to salt and heat stress, whereas melatonin-deficient rice seedlings without decreased BR levels (i.e., tdc) failed to exhibit increased stress tolerance, suggesting that stress tolerance was increased not by melatonin deficiency alone, but by a melatonin deficiency-mediated decrease in BR.
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Int J Mol Scijournal_title
International journal of molecular sciencesauthors
Hwang OJ,Back Kdoi
10.3390/ijms20205173subject
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2019-10-18 00:00:00issue
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