Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
2003
Chlorophyll (chl) breakdown during senescence is an integral part of plant development and leads to the accumulation of colorless catabolites. The loss of green pigment is due to an oxygenolytic… (More)
During senescence, chlorophyll (chl) is metabolized to colorless nonfluorescent chl catabolites (NCCs). A central reaction of the breakdown pathway is the ring cleavage of pheophorbide (pheide) a to… (More)
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a degenerative retinopathy leading to visual impairment in more than 1.5 million patients worldwide. Splice site (SS) mutations cause various diseases including RP. Most… (More)
PURPOSE
The goal of this study was to identify mutations in X-chromosomal genes associated with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in patients from Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland.
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The transformation of Lotus corniculatus plants with the maize gene Sn, reorganizes the tissue specificity of condensed tannins accumulation. In particular the transformed plants show an increase of… (More)