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leucophyll

leucophyll noun: a colourless substance which was hypothesised to be a precursor compound of chlorophyll.

Noun

leucophyll (uncountable)

  1. A colourless substance which was hypothesised to be a precursor compound of chlorophyll.
    • Fischer's observations confirmed Lyubimenko's opinion that protochlorophyll represents an oxidised form of chlorophyll arising as a by-product during synthesis. Lyubimenko assumed that the first stage of chlorophyll synthesis is oxidation of the chlorophyll precursor, i.e., the hypothetical...
    • The principal stages of initial chlorophyll biosynthesis are the condensation of pyrrole compounds with free alpha-positions, resulting in the formation of a more complex precursor of chlorophyll, i.e., a colorless leuco-compound corresponding to leucophyll. Oxidation of leucophyll leads to the...1963, E. M. Senchenkova, “V. N. Lyubimenko's Studies of Chlorophyll and their Modern Development”, in Israel Program for Scientific Translations, transl., Life Phenomena: A Historical Survey, pages...

Forms of leucophyll

alternative formleukophyll

Origin of leucophyll

From leuco- + -phyll.

Questions about leucophyll

What does leucophyll mean?
Leucophyll means a colourless substance which was hypothesised to be a precursor compound of chlorophyll.
What part of speech is leucophyll?
Leucophyll is a noun.

Words near leucophyll in the dictionary

  1. leucophobia
  2. leucophoenicite
  3. leucophore
  4. leucophores
  5. leucophosphite
  6. leucophyll
  7. leucoplakia
  8. leucoplakial
  9. leucoplakias
  10. leucoplakic
  11. leucoplast

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