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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 10, Pages 426-431Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(00)01735-0
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The mechanism responsible for the degreening of plants and the degradation of chlorophyll was unclear for many years. However, recent studies have identified the colorless intermediates and helped to construct a basic pathway for degradation. After the successive removal of phytol and Mg2+ from the chlorophyll molecule by chlorophyllase and 'Mg dechelatase', pheophorbide a is cleaved and reduced to yield a colorless, open tetrapyrrole intermediate. After further modifications, this is finally transported to the vacuole. Cloning the genes for chlorophyllase isozymes and the reductase should help to elucidate the physiological roles of each enzyme at a molecular level.
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