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Inside Cover: Structures of Chlorophyll Catabolites in Bananas ( Musa acuminata) Reveal a Split Path of Chlorophyll Breakdown in a Ripening Fruit (Chem. Eur. J. 35/2012)
Author(s) -
Moser Simone,
Müller Thomas,
Holzinger Andreas,
Lütz Cornelius,
Kräutler Bernhard
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201290150
Subject(s) - ripening , chlorophyll , banana peel , chlorophyll a , chemistry , chlorophyll fluorescence , horticulture , fluorescence , botany , musaceae , biology , biochemistry , physics , food science , optics
The accumulation of blue‐fluorescing tetrapyrroles in the peels of ripe bananas is reported by S. Moser, B. Kräutler et al. in the Full Paper on page 10873 ff. The analysis and structure elucidation of ripening banana peels reveals an unprecedented structural variety of catabolites, indicating two chlorophyll‐breakdown pathways. The inside cover shows a vertical cut through the epidermal section of a ripening banana (as seen by fluorescence microscopy), which is superimposed by the structures of chlorophyll a and of representative fluorescent‐ and nonfluorescent chlorophyll catabolites.