(n.) Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained show that chlorophyll is more active than other inhibitors studied and suggest a higher surface adsorption intensity on the primary sources of the crystal surface.
(2) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(3) As both chlorophyll a and b accumulate, extensive formation of grana takes place.
(4) In dark-grown cells adapting to the light in resting medium and in an X-ray-induced mutant, D(o) is proportional to the chlorophyll content of the cells.
(5) Luminescence yield, absorption spectra and molecular weight dependence of chlorophyll in methylethylketone and n-hexane on concentration was investigated.
(6) The derivative absorption spectra of adsorbed chlorophyll a have been obtained.
(7) An in vitro translation system using lysed etioplasts was developed to test if the accumulation of plastid-encoded chlorophyll a apoproteins is dependent on the de novo synthesis of chlorophyll a.
(8) Measurements of chlorophyll a fluorescence decay kinetics after the second saturating actinic flash indicated that, after formate treatment, the halftime of QA- oxidation was decreased by approximately a factor of 2, 4 and 6 in the wild type, R251S and R233Q, respectively.
(9) Highest activities in darkness have been observed at times when maximum chlorophyll formation would have occurred had the plants been exposed to light.
(10) DBcAMP* showed a positive effect on chlorophyll synthesis and growth rate at much lower concentrations compared to cAMP.
(11) One of them seems to be correlated with chlorophyll derivatives.
(12) In presence of vanadium, the chlorophyll formation was stimulated in Scenedesmus obliquus.
(13) The apparent molecular weight of the chlorophyll-protein complexes I and II are 88,000 and 28,000, respectively.
(14) This change is ascribed to the irreversible oxidation of a dimeric chlorophyll molecule which acts as electron donor to P+-680 under these conditions.
(15) The potential was found to shift to a less noble state when the system of the chlorophyll-naphthoquinone electrode was inserted into NAD solution with illumination.
(16) Analyses included measurement of chlorophyll autofluorescence and fluorescence due to uptake of fluorescein diacetate (FDA) and calcofluor white M2R (CFW).
(17) Chlorophyllase (chlorophyll chlorophyllidohydrolase, EC 3.1.1.14) activity assays that are based on the determination of this chlorophyllide fluorescence show that phosphatidylglycerol (PG), and also sulphoquinovosyldiacylglycerol (SQDG), associate with isolated chlorophyllase, thereby inactivating the enzyme in a co-operative way.
(18) Resonance Raman spectra of the pi-cation of bacterio-chlorophyll a in solution at 30 K are reported and discussed.
(19) This evidences for the significance of the reaction system organization for interaction of chlorophyllase with chlorophyll.
(20) The natural colorant area can be subdivided into anthocyanins, betalains, chlorophylls, carotenoids, flavonoids, polyphenols, Monascus, hemes, quinones, biliproteins, safflower, turmeric, and miscellaneous.
Xanthophyll
Definition:
(n.) A yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll; -- formerly called also phylloxanthin.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, polymeric C18 columns allow for the detection of cis carotenes, while monomeric C18 columns provide for some separation of certain xanthophylls.
(2) The characterization of two novel triterpenoid xanthophylls occurring in Streptococcus faecium UNH 564P is described.
(3) The relationship between dietary levels of xanthophyll, the degree of pigmentation in the hen, and egg production rate was studied in commercial broiler breeders (Anak 2000).
(4) The influences of fundus pigments like oxihemoglobin, melanin, xanthophyll and rhodopsin as well as the intensity and the exponent of the scattered light are optimized.
(5) Most reports have focused on the hydrocarbon carotenoids (lycopene, alpha-carotene, and beta-carotene) with fewer dealing with the more polar xanthophyll pigments.
(6) Theoretically, 577 nm seems to be a particularly useful wavelength for the treatment of a wide variety of retinal lesions because it is not absorbed in xanthophyll and penetrates opacities of the optic media better than argon blue green.
(7) The generalization that yellow flowers contained large amounts of xanthophylls and only traces of carotenes, whereas deep-orange flowers seemed to be characterized by the presence of large amounts of one carotene, was not always the correct one.
(8) In theory, the longer wavelength of the solid-state laser offers the advantages of less scattering in ocular media, higher absorption by oxyhemoglobin, and less absorption by macular xanthophyll than the 514-nm wavelength of the regular green argon laser.
(9) In chick plasma studies, it was observed that endogenious xanthophylls participated in the antioxidant defenses against the attack of aqueous peroxyl radical.
(10) It was also observed that rather small concentrations of added xanthophylls (molar fraction up to 3%) increase the pigmented bilayer thickness by a value of about 2 A as compared with that of the pure DMPC bilayer.
(11) The studies involving uninoculated birds with reciprocal chagnes between high and low xanthophyll diets indicated that plasma carotenoids are a more rapid and sensitive means of measuring changes in pigmentation levels than are visual skin scores carotenoid levels from the skin.
(12) Therefore, the AB96 gene product contains binding sites for chlorophylls a and b and xanthophylls, all of which are necessary for optimal reconstitution in vitro.
(13) A number of xanthophylls were included in this study; it would appear that an epoxide group rather than carbonyl or hydroxyl substituents increase the reactivity of the carotenoid with respect to O2(1 delta g).
(14) Using Raman spectroscopy, we demonstrate that low levels of beta-carotene, lycopene, and xanthophyll give rise to resonance enhanced bands in blood plasma.
(15) Conversely, a marked increase in the xanthophyll : Cr2O3 ratio was observed in the cecal contents of chicks inoculated with E. tenella compared with uninuoculated controls or those inoculated with E. acervulina.
(16) The bright yellows, oranges, and reds are due mostly to xanthophylls; keto and hydroxy carotenes.
(17) For both the monohydroxy-xanthophylls, alpha-cryptoxanthin and beta-cryptoxanthin, and the dihydroxy-xanthophylls, lutein and zeaxanthin, the beta, beta structural isomer (beta-cryptoxanthin or zeaxanthin) is less abundant than the beta, epsilon isomer in plasma than in the diet.
(18) Dark and photooxidative degradation of the cells is accompanied with an increase in the level of epiphase xanthophylls (particularly, ketoxanthophylls) and a decrease in the level of carotenes and glycoside xanthophylls, whereas the total content of carotenoids decreases.
(19) In result of the analyses the presence of the following carotenoids has been established: beta-zeacarotene, canthaxanthin, cryptoxanthin, alpha-cryptoxanthin, isocryptoxanthin, lutein, lutein-5,6-epoxide, zeaxanthin, isozeaxanthin, tunaxanthin, flavoxanthin, astaxanthin ester, 4-hydroxy-alpha-carotene, 4-keto-alpha-carotene and unknown xanthophylls.
(20) The findings also support the view that the xanthophylls lutein and zeaxanthin are formed from the corresponding carotenes and are especially important in the development of a normal chloroplast structure.