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Advances in Tools and Techniques to Quantify Melatonin in Plants and Foodstuff

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Melatonin in Plants: Role in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Response

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Abstract

As an ancient pleiotropic molecule, melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) regulates numerous cellular, physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes in plants. Although the existence of melatonin has been well documented over 27 years in photosynthetic organisms, research into the phytomelatonin is still limited due to lower endogenous concentrations in complex plant metrics and lack of rapid efficient quantification techniques. Therefore, scientists worldwide showed extensive efforts to develop sensitive detection tools and techniques for future innovative research and human well-being. Among the various analytical methods selective high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrophotometry (HPLC-MS) is largely used for high selectivity, accuracy, robustness, and low limit of detection. However, in recent years micro-fabrication and nanomaterial-mediated decoration of novel electrochemical and optical detection tools draw extra attention in addition to capillary electrophoresis, fluorimetry or immunological assay due to their wider biocompatibility, sensitivity, range limit, and precision detection. In this chapter, we summarize recent technological advances in melatonin quantification in plant samples and discuss the challenges of developed techniques in phytomelatonin research.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Science and Technology (NST) of Bangladesh and Sylhet Agricultural university research System (SAURES), Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh.

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M.K.H and J.S planned and wrote initial draft of the manuscript. M.K.H., G.JA. and J.Z revised the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh

    Md. Kamrul Hasan

  2. Key Laboratory of IRFA, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh

    Jannat Shopan

  3. Department of Horticulture, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, China

    Golam Jalal Ahammed

  4. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Integrative Biology, Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Jie Zhou

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Hasan, M.K., Shopan, J., Ahammed, G.J., Zhou, J. (2024). Advances in Tools and Techniques to Quantify Melatonin in Plants and Foodstuff. In: Sharma, A., Ahammed, G.J. (eds) Melatonin in Plants: Role in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Response. Plant Life and Environment Dynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8051-2_13

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