Photostability of pigments in ripening apple fruit: A possible photoprotective role of carotenoids during plant senescence

Plant Science

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 881-888

  Merzlyak, Mark N ^a   Solovchenko, Alexei E ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Apples; Carotenoids; Chlorophylls; Photoprotection; Reflectance spectroscopy; Ripening senescence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BLEACHING; CHLOROPHYLL; DEGRADATION; FRUITS; IRRADIATION; STOICHIOMETRY; TISSUE;

SENESCENCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 0036806477     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(02)00241-8     Document Type: Article

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