Enzymatic conversion of pheophorbide a to the precursor of pyropheophorbide a in leaves of Chenopodium album

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1143-1149

  Shioi, Yuzo ^a,b   Watanabe, Kenji ^a   Takamiya, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chenopodium album; Chlorophyll breakdown; Pheophorbidase; Pyropheophorbide formation

Indexed keywords

CHENOPODIUM ALBUM;

EID: 0030425666     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029065     Document Type: Article

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