Research in Plant Melatonin: Original and Current Studies
Abstract
Melatonin from plants, also known as phytomelatonin, was discovered in 1995, and since then, affecting many areas of research related to plants. Thus, the number of publications on phytomelatonin has grown exponentially in recent years, especially in Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular studies. In this paper, we try to expose the great incidence that the detection of this neurohormone in plants is having, and its relevance in areas such as agronomy, genetics, human nutrition and food chemistry/technology, animal nutrition and other more specific fields of interest such as cosmetics and nutraceuticals.
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