The Arabidopsis-accelerated cell death Gene ACD1 is Involved in Oxygenation of Pheophorbide a: Inhibition of the Pheophorbide a Oxygenase Activity does not Lead to the "Stay-Green" Phenotype in Arabidopsis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1266-1274

  Tanaka, Ryouichi ^a   Hirashima, Masumi ^a   Satoh, Soichirou ^a   Tanaka, Ayumi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerated cell death 1; Arabidopsis; Chlorophyll; Pheophorbide a oxygenase; Photosynthesis; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ACD1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; OXYGENASE; PHEIDE A OXYGENASE; PHEOPHORBIDE A;

APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DARKNESS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; DARKNESS; LIGHT; OXYGEN; OXYGENASES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0742305488     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg172     Document Type: Article

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