Table 4 Case studies or examples showcasing stress tolerance enhancement in fruits
From: Unlocking the sustainable role of melatonin in fruit production and stress tolerance: a review
Abiotic stress | Crop | Treated plant part | Plant response treated with melatonin | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Heat stress | Kiwifruit | Seedlings | Enhanced thermal stress tolerance | Xia et al. (2021) |
Strawberry | Whole plant | Increased thermal stress tolerance | Manafi et al. (2022) | |
Salt stress | Strawberry | Leaves (100–200) | Increased salinity stress tolerance | Zahedi et al. (2020) |
Banana | Seedlings (100 μM) | Resistance to salt stress tolerance | Wei et al. (2022) | |
Pistachio nut | Seedlings (100 μmol/L) | Increased salt stress tolerance | Kamiab (2020) | |
Sour jujube | Seedlings (400 mmol/L) | Increases salt stress tolerance | Zhu et al. (2023) | |
Cold stress | Pomegranate | Fruit (100 μM) | Increase cold stress tolerance | Jannatizadeh (2019) |
Plum | Whole fruit | Increase cold stress tolerance | Du et al. (2023) | |
Litchi | Whole fruit (0.5 mM) | Increase chilling stress tolerance | Liu et al. (2021) | |
Sapota | Whole fruit (90 µM) | Reduced chilling injury | Mirshekari et al. (2020) | |
Washington’s navel orange | Whole fruit (1000 μM) | Reduced chilling injury | Aboryia et al. (2021) | |
Guava | Whole fruit (100 μmol/ L) | Lowest chilling injury index | Chen et al. (2022) | |
Mango | Whole fruit (100 μmol/L) | Reduced chilling injury development | Kebbeh et al. (2023) | |
Drought Stress | kiwifruit | Seedlings (100 μM) | Enhanced seedling adaptability to drought stress | Liang et al. (2019) |
Sweet cherry | Leaves (200 μM) | Increased drought tolerance | Hojjati et al. (2023) | |
Citrus | Rootstocks (1.5 mM) | Increased draught tolerant | Korkmaz et al. (2022) | |
Lime | Whole plant (100 μM) | Increased draught tolerant | Jafari et al. (2022) | |
Heavy metal stress | Apple rootstocks | Whole plant (100 μM) | Mitigated cadmium toxicity | He et al. (2020) |
Strawberry | Seedlings (100 µmol/L) | Reduced the toxic effects of Cadmium |