Article
Chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) is involved in chlorophyll b formation from chlorophyll a.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Oct 1998
Tanaka A, Ito H, Tanaka R, Tanaka N K, Yoshida K, Okada K
Abstract excerpt
Chlorophyll b is an ubiquitous accessory pigment in land plants, green algae, and prochlorophytes. Its biosynthesis plays a key role in the adaptation to various light environments. We isolated six chlorophyll b-less mutants by insertional mutagenesis by using the nitrate reductase or argininosuc...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Chlorophyll
- Chlorophyll A
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Oxygenases
- Phenotype
- Restriction Mapping