... absorption bands. Heme catabolism byHOs of mammals, pathogenic bacteria, cyanobacteriaand probably insects is considered to have a similarmechanism, because the characteristic absorptionbands of verdoheme ... higherplants have been identified in a few moss plants,several angiosperms (tobacco, tomato, pea, soybean,rice plant, sorghum, Arabidopsis thaliana), and a gym-nosperm (loblolly pine) [8]. So far, ... Then, a broad bandappeared at around 660 nm, and was maximal 9–12 minafter initiation of the reaction. The spectral features of the final reaction mixture were analogous, but not iden-tical,...