Cited by 517Plant Gene Expression AnalysisPhotosynthetic Processes and MechanismsPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Chlorophyll degradation

Matile, Philippe, Hörtensteiner, Stefan, Thomas, Howard·1999·Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology

Abstract

Although the loss of green color in senescent leaves and ripening fruits is a spectacular natural phenomenon, research on chlorophyll breakdown has been largely neglected until recently. This review summarizes knowledge about the fate of chlorophyll in degreening tissues that has been gained during the past few years. Structures of end- and intermediary products of degradation as well as the biochemistry of the porphyrin-cleaving reaction have been elucidated. The intracellular localization of the catabolic pathway is particularly important in the regulation of chlorophyll breakdown. None of the genes encoding the related catabolic enzymes has so far been isolated, which makes chlorophyll degradation an area of opportunity for future research.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1146/annurev.arplant.50.1.67

Cites

158 of 158 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • N. oceanica IMET1 algal cells changed in color from green to yellow on day 14 to light yellow on day 28 during long-term nitrate depletion.

    “It was observed that algal cells changed in color from green to yellow (on day 14) to light yellow (on day 28) during long-term nitrate depletion, which is analogous to the color change during leaf senescence or accelerated cell death caused by various biotic or abiotic stresses (Matile et al., 1999).”

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Matile, P., Hörtensteiner, S., & Thomas, H.
Affiliations
  • University of Zurich (CH)
  • Aberystwyth University (GB)
Venue
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology
Published
1999-06
Volume
50
Issue
1
Pages
67-95
ISSN
1040-2519 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4247169028
Cited by
515
References
158
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 27 · 2013: 23 · 2012: 25
FWCI
5.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
Keywords
chlorophyll degradation, degreening, senescence, fruit ripening, subcellular localization, catabolic enzymes, gene isolation

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review