Functional roles of melatonin in plants, and perspectives in nutritional and agricultural science.
@article{Tan2012FunctionalRO, title={Functional roles of melatonin in plants, and perspectives in nutritional and agricultural science.}, author={Dun-Xian Tan and R{\"u}diger Hardeland and Lucien C. Manchester and Ahmet Şeref Korkmaz and Shuran Ma and Sergio A. Rosales‐Corral and Russel Joseph Reiter}, journal={Journal of experimental botany}, year={2012}, volume={63 2}, pages={ 577-97 } }
The presence of melatonin in plants is universal. Evidence has confirmed that a major portion of the melatonin is synthesized by plants themselves even though a homologue of the classic arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase (AANAT) has not been identified as yet in plants. Thus, the serotonin N-acetylating enzyme in plants may differ greatly from the animal AANAT with regard to sequence and structure. This would imply multiple evolutionary origins of enzymes with these catalytic properties. A…
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