Presowing seed treatment with melatonin protects red cabbage seedlings against toxic copper ion concentrations

• Published in: Journal of pineal research Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 24 - 31
• Main Authors: Posmyk, Małgorzata M., Kuran, Hanna, Marciniak, Kazimierz, Janas, Krystyna M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2008; Blackwell
• Subjects: Antioxidants - pharmacology; Biological and medical sciences; Brassica; Brassica - drug effects; Brassica - growth & development; Brassica - metabolism; Brassica oleracea rubrum; Cations, Divalent - toxicity; Copper - toxicity; copper stress; DNA content; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Germination - drug effects; Germination - physiology; lipid peroxidation; melatonin; Melatonin - pharmacology; seed hydropriming; Seedlings - drug effects; Seedlings - growth & development; Seedlings - metabolism; Seeds - drug effects; Seeds - growth & development; Seeds - metabolism; Vertebrates: endocrinology; Melatonin; seed hydropriming; Ions; Lipids; DNA content; lipid peroxidation; Stress; Brassica oleracea rubrum; Treatment; DNA; Copper; Pineal hormone; Peroxidation; copper stress

:  One of the targets of modern plant physiology is to identify tools for improving seed germination and plant growth under unfavorable environmental conditions. Seeds of Brassica oleracea rubrum were pretreated with melatonin at concentrations: 1, 10, and 100 μm using a hydropriming method. Air‐dri...