Protochlorophyllide Photoreduction—A Review

Protochlorophyllide reduction - what is new in 2005?

“…Several reviews dealing with Pchlide to Chl transformation appeared recently (Chl biosynthesis: Schoefs and Bertrand 2005; Chl catabolism: Eckhardt andGrimm ---2004, Hoertensteiner andMatile 2004;plastid ultrastructure: Staehelin 2004; Pchlide-Chlide cycle : Schoefs 2001; Pchlide photoreduction: Franck 2003, Masuda andTakamiya 2004;Pchlide reduction: Fujita and Bauer 2003;tetrapyrrole signalling: Vasileuskaya et al 2004). Consequently, in this contribution only the new data published during the year 2004 are summarized.…”