Photochemical studies of a fluorescent chlorophyll catabolite – source of bright blue fluorescence in plant tissue and efficient sensitizer of singlet oxygen

Chlorophyll Breakdown in Senescent Banana Leaves: Catabolism Reprogrammed for Biosynthesis of Persistent Blue Fluorescent Tetrapyrroles

(2013) Clemens Vergeiner et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Cytochrome P450 CYP89A9 Is Involved in the Formation of Major Chlorophyll Catabolites during Leaf Senescence inArabidopsis

(2013) Bastien Christ et al.   PLANT CELL

Structures of Chlorophyll Catabolites in Bananas (Musa acuminata)Reveal a Split Path of Chlorophyll Breakdown in a Ripening Fruit

(2012) Simone Moser et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A genetically-encoded photosensitiser demonstrates killing of bacteria by purely endogenous singlet oxygen

(2012) Rubén Ruiz-González et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hypermodified Fluorescent Chlorophyll Catabolites: Source of Blue Luminescence in Senescent Leaves

(2010) Srinivas Banala et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Singlet oxygen: there is indeed something new under the sun

(2010) Peter R. Ogilby   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

A novel blue fluorescent chlorophyll catabolite accumulates in senescent leaves of the peace lily and indicates a split path of chlorophyll breakdown

(2010) Bernhard Kräutler et al.   FEBS LETTERS

The stay-green revolution: Recent progress in deciphering the mechanisms of chlorophyll degradation in higher plants

(2009) Cornelius S. Barry   PLANT SCIENCE

Fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites in bananas light up blue halos of cell death

(2009) S. Moser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Singlet oxygen in plants: production, detoxification and signaling

(2009) Christian Triantaphylidès et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Chlorophyll Breakdown by a Biomimetic Route

(2008) Michael Oberhuber et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Blue Luminescence of Ripening Bananas

(2008) Simone Moser et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Chlorophyll breakdown and chlorophyll catabolites in leaves and fruit

(2008) Bernhard Kräutler   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Singlet molecular oxygen by direct excitation

(2007) Steffen Jockusch et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES