Detection of chlorophyll breakdown products in the senescent leaves of higher plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 909-915

  Suzuki, Yasuyo ^a   Shioi, Yuzo ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barley (Hordeum vulgare); Chlorophyll degradation; Chlorophyll degradation products; Monopyrrole derivatives; Radish (Raphanus sativus); Senescence

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; DETERMINATION OF CONTENT; HEMATINIC ACID; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHYL ETHYL MALEIMIDE; METHYL VINYL MALEIMIDE DIALDEHYDE; MONOPYRROL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SENESCENCE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LATEOLABRAX JAPONICUS; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 0032876883     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029622     Document Type: Article

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