Transcriptome profiling of Arabidopsis mutants of the chlorophyll degradation PAO/Phyllobilin pathway

Detoxification of chlorophyll during leaf senescence in higher plants is a complex and tightly regulated process. It aims at opening the chlorophyll porphyrin ring to produce non-photoreactive degradation products, termed phyllobilins, which are stored in the vacuole. Here we are describing the influence on the transcriptome of dark-induced senescing leaf of the removal of three key enzymes of the PAO/phyllobilin pathway (namely: PAO, PPH and NYE/SGR).