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Inside Cover: Hypermodified Fluorescent Chlorophyll Catabolites: Source of Blue Luminescence in Senescent Leaves (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 30/2010)
Author(s) -
Banala Srinivas,
Moser Simone,
Müller Thomas,
Kreutz Christoph,
Holzinger Andreas,
Lütz Cornelius,
Kräutler Bernhard
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201002974
Subject(s) - fluorescence , chlorophyll , chlorophyll a , luminescence , chlorophyll fluorescence , chemistry , blue light , botany , degradation (telecommunications) , photochemistry , biophysics , biology , biochemistry , materials science , optoelectronics , optics , physics , telecommunications , computer science
The typical degradation of chlorophyll in degreening leaves leads to catabolites that are colorless and difficult to detect. In their Communication on page 5174 ff., B. Kräutler and co‐workers report that blue‐fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites accumulate in yellowing banana leaves, which exhibit blue luminescence under UV light. These catabolites present new molecular in vivo probes for the study of senescence in plants.