Chlorophyll breakdown during pepper fruit ripening in the chlorophyll retainer mutation is impaired at the homolog of the senescence-inducible stay-green gene.

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The pepper chlorophyll retainer (cl) mutation is characterized by inhibition of chlorophyll degradation during fruit ripening. Ripe fruit of cl pepper containing chlorophyll and red carotenoids is brown, while ripe fruit containing chlorophyll and yellow carotenoids is green. In addition to the inhibitory effect during fruit ripening caused by cl, we show that chlorophyll degradation is inhibited during natural...

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