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    The vertebrate pineal hormone melatonin is produced by the brown alga Pterygophora californica and mimics dark effects on growth rate in the light

    Melatonin, a methoxylated indoleamine, plays a role as a mediator of darkness in animals as well as in the unicellular alga Gonyaulax polyedra Stein and was recently detected in higher plants. We report on the fi...

    Birgit Fuhrberg, Ivonne Balzer, Rüdiger Hardeland, Astrid Werner, Klaus Lüning in Planta (1996)