Partial purification and characterization of red chlorophyll catabolite reductase, a stroma protein involved in chlorophyll breakdown

Plant Physiology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 677-682

  Rodoni, Simona ^a   Vicentini, Fabrizio ^a   Schellenberg, Maja ^a   Matile, Philippe ^a   Hörtensteiner, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; RED CHLOROPHYLL; RED CHLOROPHYLL CATABOLITE REDUCTASE;

BRASSICA NAPUS; CAPSICUM ANNUUM;

EID: 0031401522     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.115.2.677     Document Type: Article

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