30. JILLIAN-AMANDA FORSYTH
Information acquired: 2025
JILLIAN-AMANDA FORSYTH is an academic who published a paper in 2020 entitled Melatonin is a light signaling molecule in plants. JILLIAN-AMANDA FORSYTH published this work as part of a team: Forsyth, Jillian Amanda. Here is a description of this work: Light is used by plants for photosynthesis and as a signal of their environment. Melatonin (MEL) is one of the indoleamine class of plant growth regulators (PGRs). MEL is a potent antioxidant and has roles in plant growth including root induction and stress mitigation as well as regulating circadian rhythms in mammals and potentially in plants. I hypothesized that MEL is a signaling plant growth regulator induced by specific light spectra to initiate a metabolic(s) cascade. To investigate this hypothesis, my specific objectives were: (a) to develop and validate a UPLC-MS/MS method for detection and quantification of MEL, 5HT, and other analytes in the biosynthetic pathway; (b) to determine the effects of specific light spectra on concentrations of MEL, 5HT, and other prevalent PGRs in a Scutellaria model system; (c) to determine whether the Arabidopsis cryptochrome P45.