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Involvement of AtNAP1 in the regulation of chlorophyll degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Planta - 1 Mar 2010
Nagane Tomohiro, Tanaka Ayumi, Tanaka Ryouichi
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In plants, chlorophyll is actively synthesized from glutamate in the developmental phase and is degraded into non-fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites during senescence. The chlorophyll metabolism must be strictly regulated because chlorophylls and their intermediate molecules generate reactive oxygen species. Many mechanisms have been proposed for the regulation of chlorophyll synthesis including gene expression,...
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