Strategies to generate melatonin-enriched transgenic rice to respond to the adverse effects on rice production potentially caused by global warming
Stress tolerant melatonin-enriched rice generated by genetic engineering
Keywords:
melatonin, global warming, arsenic, high temperature, drought
Abstract
Global warming is predicted to reduce the yield of rice, which feeds more than half of the world’s population. A rise in temperature will inevitably hamper rice production by causing drought and flooding. Melatonin has the capacity to ameliorate such adverse effects. Here, we propose multiple genetic means of producing melatonin-enriched, high-yield rice variants to adapt upcoming global warming.
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14. Murch SJ, Erland LAE (2021) A systemic review of melatonin in plants: an example of evolution of literature. Front. Plant Sci. 12: 683047.
15. Zhang HM, Zhang Y (2014) Melatonin: a well-documented antioxidant with conditional pro-oxidant actions. J. Pineal Res. 57: 131-146.
16. Arnao MB, Hernández-Ruiz J (2019) Melatonin and reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: a model for the plant redox network. Melatonin Res. 2: 152-168.
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22. Jiang M, Dai S, Wang B, Xie Z, Li J, Wang L, Li S, Tan Y, Tian B, Shu Q, Huang J (2021) Gold nanoparticles synthesized using melatonin suppress cadmium uptake and alleviate its toxicity in rice. Environ. Sci. Nano 8: 1042.
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31. Park S, Byeon Y, Back K (2013) Functional analysis of three ASMT gene family members in rice plants. J. Pineal Res. 55: 409-415.
32. Byeon Y, Choi GH, Lee HY, Back K (2015) Melatonin biosynthesis requires N-acetylserotonin methyltransferase activity of caffeic acid O-methyltransferase in rice. J. Exp. Bot. 66: 6917-6925.
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35. Lee K, Hwang OJ, Back K (2020) Rice N-acetylserotonin deacetylase regulates melatonin levels in transgenic rice. Melatonin Res. 3: 32-42.
36. Byeon Y, Back K (2015) Molecular cloning of melatonin 2-hydroxylase responsible for 2-hydroxymelatonin production in rice (Oryza sativa). J. Pineal Res. 58: 343-351.
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Published
2021-12-31
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Back, K., Tan, D.-X. and Reiter, R.J. 2021. Strategies to generate melatonin-enriched transgenic rice to respond to the adverse effects on rice production potentially caused by global warming. Melatonin Research. 4, 4 (Dec. 2021), 501-506. DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.32794/mr112500108.
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