The control of chlorophyll levels in maturing kiwifruit

The kiwifruit lycopene beta-cyclase plays a significant role in carotenoid accumulation in fruit

(2009) C. Ampomah-Dwamena et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Pheophytin Pheophorbide Hydrolase (Pheophytinase) Is Involved in Chlorophyll Breakdown during Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis

(2009) S. Schelbert et al.   PLANT CELL

Defect in non-yellow coloring 3, an α/β hydrolase-fold family protein, causes a stay-green phenotype during leaf senescence in rice

(2009) Ryouhei Morita et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

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

(2009) Cornelius S. Barry   PLANT SCIENCE

Stay-green regulates chlorophyll and chlorophyll-binding protein degradation during senescence

(2009) Stefan Hörtensteiner   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Analysis of expressed sequence tags from Actinidia: applications of a cross species EST database for gene discovery in the areas of flavor, health, color and ripening

(2008) Ross N Crowhurst et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Two short-chain dehydrogenase/reductases, NON-YELLOW COLORING 1 and NYC1-LIKE, are required for chlorophyll band light-harvesting complex II degradation during senescence in rice

(2008) Yutaka Sato et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Stay-green protein, defective in Mendel’s green cotyledon mutant, acts independent and upstream of pheophorbide a oxygenase in the chlorophyll catabolic pathway

(2008) Sylvain Aubry et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

An Evaluation of the Basis and Consequences of a Stay-Green Mutation in the navel negra Citrus Mutant Using Transcriptomic and Proteomic Profiling and Metabolite Analysis

(2008) E. Alos et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Changes in pigments and plastid ultrastructure during ripening of green-fleshed and yellow-fleshed kiwifruit

(2008) Mirco Montefiori et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

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

(2008) Yelena Borovsky et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS