Phyllobilins – the abundant bilin-type tetrapyrrolic catabolites of the green plant pigment chlorophyll

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

(2014) Steffen Jockusch et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Water deficit induces chlorophyll degradation via the ‘PAO/phyllobilin’ pathway in leaves of homoio- (Craterostigma pumilum) and poikilochlorophyllous (Xerophyta viscosa) resurrection plants

(2014) BASTIEN CHRIST et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Blue transition metal complexes of a natural bilin-type chlorophyll catabolite

(2014) Chengjie Li et al.   Chemical Science

Hydroxymethylated Phyllobilins: A Puzzling New Feature of the Dioxobilin Branch of Chlorophyll Breakdown

(2013) Iris Süssenbacher et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

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

Phycoviolobilin Formation and Spectral Tuning in the DXCF Cyanobacteriochrome Subfamily

(2012) Nathan C. Rockwell et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Ubiquity and quantitative significance of detoxification catabolism of chlorophyll associated with protistan herbivory

(2012) Y. Kashiyama et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Dioxobilane as Product of a Divergent Path of Chlorophyll Breakdown in Norway Maple

(2011) Thomas Müller et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

How the Colourless ‘Nonfluorescent’ Chlorophyll Catabolites Rust

(2011) Markus Ulrich et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

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

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

Chlorophyll breakdown in higher plants

(2010) Stefan Hörtensteiner et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

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

Crystal Structures of the Substrate-Bound Forms of Red Chlorophyll Catabolite Reductase: Implications for Site-Specific and Stereospecific Reaction

(2010) Masakazu Sugishima et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Evolution of plant senescence

(2009) Howard Thomas et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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