Carotenoid

... for use by humans et al. United States Patent Application 20020168703 Hoshino, Tatsuo; et al. November 14, 2002 Process for the manufacture of carotenoids and biologically useful materials thereof Abstract A process is provided for producing a carotenoid, which process includes cultivating ...

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... as fruit and floral petals, to which they give their distinctive colors. This is always associated with a massive increase in the accumulation of carotenoid pigments. The conversion of chloroplasts to chromoplasts in ripening tomato fruit is a classic example. Search in google as chromoplast+structure ...

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What about this? :? Biochem J. 1937 April; 31(4): 532–534. Eloxanthin—a new carotenoid pigment from the pondweed Elodea canadensis Donald Hey The Chemistry Department, University of Manchester Click HERE to get the PDF ;)

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... oxygen species generation by the respiratory electron transport chain. PTOX is a plastoquinol oxidase in plants and some algae. It is required in carotenoid biosynthesis and may represent the elusive oxidase in chlororespiration. Recently, prokaryotic orthologues of bothAOX and PTOX proteins have ...

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... has been developed for this measurement. On the other hand, algae that live in deep water, where there simply is no light, use their little carotenoid pigment called phycoeritrine, and carry out quite an efficient photosynthesis in blue and green light: adaptation to the environment. About ...

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