Afreen F, Zobayed SMA, Kozai T (2006) Melatonin in Glycyrrhiza uralensis: response of plant roots to spectral quality of light and UV-B radiation. J Pineal Res 41:108–115
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Aiyar P, Schaeme D, Garcia-Altares M, Flores DC, Dathe H, Hertweck C, Sasso S, Mittag M (2017) Antagonistic bacteria disrupt calcium homeostasis and immobilize algal cells. Nature Commun 8:1756
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Arnao MB, Hernandez-Ruiz J (2015) Functions of melatonin in plants: a review. J Pineal Res 59:133–150
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Aschoff J (1965) Circadian rhythms in man. Science 148:1427–1432
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Balzer I, Hardeland R (1991) Circadian rhythmicity in the stimulation of bioluminescence by biogenic amines and MAO inhibitors in Gonyaulax polyedra. Int J Biometeorol 34:231–234
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Briskin DP, Gawienowski MC (2001) Differential effects of light and nitrogen on production of hypericins and leaf glands in Hypericum perforatum. Plant Physiol Biochem 39:1075–1081
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Bünning E (1936) Die endogene Tagesrhythmik als Grundlage der photoperiodischen Reaktion. Ber dtsch Bot Ges 54:590–607
Google Scholar
Byeon Y, Back K (2016) Low melatonin production by suppression of either serotonin N-acetyltransferase or N-acetylserotonin methyltransferase in rice causes seedling growth retardation with yield penalty, abiotic stress susceptibility, and enhanced coleoptile growth under anoxic conditions. J Pineal Res 60:348–359
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Cassone VM, Natesan AJ (1997) Time and time again: the phylogeny of melatonin as a transducer of biological time. J Biol Rhythms 12:489–497
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Chen G, Huo Y, Tan DX, Liang Z, Zhang W, Zhang Y (2003) Melatonin in Chinese medicinal herbs. Life Sci 73:19–26
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Czeisler CA, Duffy JF, Shanahan TL, Brown EN, Mitchell JF, Rimmer DW, Ronda JM, Silva EJ, Allan JS, Emens JS, Dijk D-J, Kronauer RE (1999) Stability, precision, and near-24-hour period of the human circadian pacemaker. Science 284:2177–2181
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Deng TS (2018) Biological clocks, some clock-related diseases, and medicinal plants. PsyCh J 7:197–205
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Deng TS, Roenneberg T (1997) Photobiology of the Gonyaulax circadian system. II. Allopurinol inhibits blue light effects. Planta 202:502–509
CAS
Google Scholar
Deng TS, Roenneberg T (2002) The flavo-enzyme xanthine oxidase is under circadian control in the marine alga Gonyaulax. Naturwissenschaften 89:171–175
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Dubbels R, Reiter RJ, Klenke E, Goebel A, Schnakenberg E, Ehlers C, Schiwara HW, Schloot W (1995) Melatonin in edible plants identified by radioimmunoassay and high-performance liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometry. J Pineal Res 18:28–31
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Dubocovich ML, Masana MI, Benloucif S (1999) Molecular pharmacology and function of melatonin receptor subtypes. In: Olcese J (ed) Melatonin after four decades: an assessment of its potential. Adv Exp Med Biol 460:181–190
Erland LAE, Saxena PK, Murch SJ (2018) Melatonin in plant signalling and behaviour. Funct Plant Biol 45:58–69
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ernst E (ed) (2003) Hypericum: The genus Hypericum. Taylor & Francis Inc., London and New York
Google Scholar
Foulkes NS, Borjigin J, Snyder SH, Sassone-Corsi P (1997) Rhythmic transcription: the molecular basis of circadian melatonin synthesis. Trends Neurosci 20:487–492
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Garner WW, Allard HA (1920) Effect of the relative length of day and night and other factors of the environment on growth and reproduction in plants. J Agric Res 18:553–606
Google Scholar
Gaster B, Holroyd J (2000) St. John’s wort for depression–A systematic review. Arch Intern Med 160:152–156
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Greenham K, McClung CR (2015) Integrating circadian dynamics with physiological processes in plants. Nature Rev Genet 16:598–610
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Greenham K, Guadagno CR, Gehan MA, Mockler TC, Weinig C, Ewers BE, McClung CR (2017) Temporal network analysis identifies early physiological and transcriptomic indicators of mild drought in Brassica rapa. Elife 6:e29655
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Guerrero JR, García-Ruíz P, Sánchez-Bravo J, Acosta M, Arnao MB (2001) Quantitation of indole-3-acetic acid by LC with electrochemical detection in etiolated hypocotyls of Lupinus albus. J Liq Chromatogr Rel Tech 24:3095–3104
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Hardeland R (1993) The presence and function of melatonin and structurally related indoleamines in a dinoflagellate, and a hypothesis on the evolutionary significance of these tryptophan-metabolites in unicellulars. Experientia 49:614–623
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Hardeland R (2019) Aging, melatonin, and the pro- and anti-inflammatory networks. Int J Mol Sci 20:1223
Article
CAS
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Hardeland R, Poeggeler B (2003) Non-vertebrate melatonin. J Pineal Res 34:233–241
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hardeland R, Reiter RJ, Poeggeler B, Tan DX (1993) The significance of the metabolism of the neurohormone melatonin- antioxidative protection and formation of bioactive substances. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 17:347–357
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hardeland R, Balzer I, Poeggeler B, Fuhrberg B, Uria H, Behrmann G, Wolf R, Meyer TJ, Reiter RJ (1995) On the primary fuctions of melatonin in evolution: mediation of photoperiodic signals in a unicell, photooxidation, and scavenging of free radicals. J Pineal Res 18:104–111
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hardeland R, Cardinali DP, Srinvivasan V, Spence DW, Brown GM, Pandi-Perumal SR (2011) Melatonin-a pleiotropic, orchestrating regulator molecule. Prog Neurobiol 93:350–384
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Heigl S, Gwinner E (1995) Synchronization of circadian rhythms of house sparrows by oral melatonin: effects of changing period. J Biol Rhythms 10:225–233
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Heinrich M, Anagnostou S (2017) From Pharmacognosia to DNA-based medicinal plant authentication – pharmacognosy through the centuries. Planta Med 83:1110–1116
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hernandez-Ruiz J, Cano A, Arnao MB (2004) Melatonin: a growth stimulating compound present in lupine tissues. Planta 220:140–144
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Imbesi M, Arslan AD, Yildiz S, Sharma R, Gavin D, Tun N, Manev H, Uz T (2009) The melatonin receptor MT1 is required for the differential regulatory actions of melatonin on neuronal ‘clock’ gene expression in striatal neurons in vitro. J Pineal Res 46:87–94
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kazemi SY, Abedirad SM, Zali SH, Amiri M (2012) Hypericin from St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) as a novel natural fluorophore for chemiluminescence reaction of bis (2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) oxalate-H2O2-imidazole and quenching effect of some natural lipophilic hydrogen peroxide scavengers. J Lumines 132:1226–1231
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Kolář J, Macháčková I (2005) Melatonin in higher plants: occurrence and possible functions. J Pineal Res 39:333–341
Article
PubMed
CAS
Google Scholar
Lecharny A, Wagner E (1984) Stem extension rate in light-grown plants - Evidence for an endogenous circadian rhythm in Chenopodium rubrum. Physiol Plant 60:437–443
Article
Google Scholar
Lerner AB, Case JD, Takahashi Y, Lee TH, Mori W (1958) Isolation of melatonin, the pineal gland factor that lightens melanocytes. J Am Chem Soc 80:2587–2589
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Lockley SW, Brainard GC, Czeisler CA (2003) High sensitivity of the human circadian melatonin rhythm to resetting by short wavelength light. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:4502–4505
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Merrow M, Brunner M, Roenneberg T (1999) Assignment of circadian function for the Neurospora clock gene frequency. Nature 399:584–586
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Michel S, Geusz ME, Zaritsky JJ, Block GD (1993) Circadian rhythm in membrane conductance expressed in isolated neurons. Science 259:239–241
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Murch SJ, Saxena PK (2006) A melatonin-rich germlasm line of St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L.). J Pineal Res 41:284–287
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Murch SJ, Simmons CB, Saxena PK (1997) Melatonin in feverfew and other medicinal plants. Lancet 350:1598–1599
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Murch SJ, Krishnara JS, Saxena PK (2000) Tryptophan is a precursor for melatonin and serotonin biosynthesis in in vitro regenerated St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L. cv. Anthos) Plant Cell Rep 19:698–704
Pasqua G, Avato P, Monacelli B, Santamaria AR, Argentieri MP (2003) Metabolites in cell suspension cultures, calli, and in vitro regenerated organs of Hypericum perforatum cv Topas. Plant Sci 165:977–982
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Pittendrigh CS (1981) Circadian organization and the photoperiodic phenomena. In: Follett DE (ed) Follett BK. Biological Clocks in Seasonal Reproductive Cycles. John Wright & Sons Ltd, U.K
Google Scholar
Pittendrigh CS (1993) Temporal organization: reflection of a Darwinian clock-watcher. Annual Rev Physiol 55:17–54
Article
Google Scholar
Poeggeler B, Balzer I, Hardeland R, Lerchl A (1991) Pineal hormone melatonin oscillates also in the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra. Naturwissenschaften 78:268–269
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Reiter RJ (1996) Functional aspects of the pineal hormone melatonin in combating cell and tissue damage induced by free radicals. Eur J Endocrinol 134:412–420
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Reppert SM (1997) Melatonin receptors: molecular biology of a new family of G-protein-coupled receptors. J Biol Rhythms 12:528–531
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Robson NKB (2003) Hypericum botany. In: Ernst E (ed) Hypericum: The genus Hypericum., Taylor & Francis Inc., London and New York
Roenneberg T, Deng TS (1997) Photobiology of the Gonyaulax circadian system. I. Different phase response curves for red and blue light. Planta 202:494–501
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Roenneberg T, Morse D (1993) Two circadian oscillators in one cell. Nature 362:362–364
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Roenneberg T, Colfax GN, Hastings JW (1989) A circadian rhythm of population behavior in Gonyaulax polyedra. J Biol Rhythms 4:201–216
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Roenneberg T, Deng TS, Eisensamer B, Mittag M, Neher I, Rehman J (1995) Cellular mechanisms of circadian clocks. Wien med Wschr 145:385–389
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sack RL, Lewy AJ (1997) Melatonin as a chronobiotic: Treatment of circadian desynchrony in night workers and the blind. J Biol Rhythms 12:595–603
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sack RL, Brandes RW, Kendall AR, Lewy AJ (2000) Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people. N Engl J Med 343:1070–1077
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Saunders DS (2016) The temporal ‘structure’ and function of the insect photoperiodic clock: a tribute to Colin S. Pittendrigh. Physiol Entomol 41:1–18
Article
Google Scholar
Schaefer M, Hardeland R (2009) The melatonin metabolite N-acetyl-5-methoxykynuramine is a potent singlet oxygen scavenger. J Pineal Res 46:49–52
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Schempp CM, Krikin V, Simon-Haarhaus G, Kersten A, Kiss J, Termeer CC, Gilb B, Kaufmann T, Borner C, Sleeman JP, Simon JC (2002) Inhibition of tumor cell growth by hyperforin, a novel anticancer drug from St. John’s wort that acts by induction of apoptosis. Oncogene 21:1242–1250
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Tan D-X, Reiter RJ, Manchester LC, Yan MT, El-Sawi M, Sainz RM, Mayo JC, Kohen R, Allegra M, Hardeland R (2002) Chemical and physical properties and potential mechanisms: melatonin as a broad spectrum antioxidant and free radical scavenger. Curr Topics Med Chem 2:181–197
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Tan D-X, Hardeland R, Manchester LC, Korkmaz A, Ma S, Rosales-Corral S, Reiter RJ (2011) Functional roles of melatonin in plants, and perspectives in nutritional and agricultural science. J Exp Bot 63:577–597
Article
PubMed
CAS
Google Scholar
Tong Q, McGonnell IM, Demmers TGM, Roulston N, Bergoug H, Romanini CE, Verhelst R, Guinebretière M, Eterradossi N, Berckmans D, Exadaktylos V (2018) Effect of a photoperiodic green light programme during incubation on embryo development and hatch process. Animal 12:765–773
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Tosini G, Menaker M (1996) Circadian rhythms in cultured mammalian retina. Science 272:419–421
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Wever R (1979) The circadian system of man. Springer, Berlin
Book
Google Scholar
Zhang J, Wang L, Xie W, Hu S, Zhou H, Zhu P, Zhu H (2020) Melatonin attenuates ER stress and mitochondrial damage in septic cardiomyopathy: a new mechanism involving BAP31 upregulation and MAPK-ERK pathway. J Cell Physiol 235:2847–2856
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Zhao D, Yu Y, Shen Y, Liu Q, Zhao Z, Sharma R, Reiter RJ (2019) Melatonin synthesis and function: evolutionary history in animals and plants. Front Endocrinol 10:249
Article
Google Scholar
Zisapel N (2018) New perspectives on the role of melatonin in human sleep, circadian rhythms and their regulation. Br J Pharmacol 175:3190–3199
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar