Melatonin stabilizes photosynthesis and scavenges ROS to enhance salt tolerance in cucumber
Melatonin enhances cucumber salt tolerance by stabilizing photosynthesis-via LHC gene regulation-and mitigating ROS stress, providing a mechanistic basis for improving stress resilience in horticultural crops.
Authors
- Zhaoxuan Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-0799)
- Zhigang Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6742-0654)
- Xiaozhuo Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8667-9162)
- Xueyan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1487-3705)
- Jianyu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5524-692X)
- Jiawei Song
Institutions
- Ningxia University (CN)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Plant Biology
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-07274-3
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Light effects on plants
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.25
Funders
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China