Exogenous melatonin confers salt stress tolerance to watermelon by improving photosynthesis and redox homeostasis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Li, Hao ^a   Chang, Jingjing ^a   Chen, Hejie ^a   Wang, Zhongyuan ^a   Gu, Xiurong ^a   Wei, Chunhua ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Ma, Jianxiang ^a   Yang, Jianqiang ^a   Zhang, Xian ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Melatonin; Photosynthesis; Redox homeostasis; Salt stress; Watermelon

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014907613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00295     Document Type: Article

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