Chlorophyll breakdown is an important catabolic process of leaf senescence and fruit
ripening. Structure elucidation of colorless linear tetrapyrroles as (final) breakdown products …

In land plants, chlorophyll is broken down to colorless linear tetrapyrroles in a highly
conserved multi-step pathway. The pathway is termed the 'PAO pathway', because the …

Chlorophylls are the most remarkable examples of fluorophores, and their fluorescence has
been intensively studied as a non-invasive tool for assessment of photosynthesis. Many …

Chlorophyll breakdown is the most obvious sign of leaf senescence and fruit ripening. A
multistep pathway has been elucidated in recent years that can be divided into two major …

Fall colors have always been fascinating and are still a remarkably puzzling phenomenon
associated with the breakdown of chlorophyll (Chl) in leaves. As discovered in recent years …

The ambient mass spectrometry technique, desorption electrospray ionization mass
spectrometry (DESI-MS), is applied for the rapid identification and spatially resolved relative …

The seasonal disappearance of the green plant pigment chlorophyll in the leaves of
deciduous trees has long been a fascinating biological puzzle. In the course of the last two …

Phyllobilins are natural products derived from the degradation of chlorophyll, which
proceeds via a common and strictly controlled pathway in higher plants. The resulting …

During leaf senescence, chlorophyll (Chl) is broken down to nonfluorescent chlorophyll
catabolites (NCCs). These arise from intermediary fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites …

Phyllobilins are a group of chlorophyll‐derived bilin‐type linear tetrapyrroles, generated in
the process of chlorophyll breakdown. Since the first phyllobilin was isolated and …