Fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites in bananas light up blue halos of cell death

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 15538-15543

  Mosera, Simone ^a   Müller, Thomas ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Lütz, Cornelius ^a   Jockusch, Steffen ^b   Turro, Nicholas J ^b   Kräutler, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Fruit; Luminescent marker; Plant senescence; Tetrapyrrole

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BANANA; CELL DEATH; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT STOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

APOPTOSIS; CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSA; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

MUSA ACUMINATA; PYRUS;

EID: 70349440507     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908060106     Document Type: Article

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