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Xanthophyll - Wikipedia
Xanthophylls (originally phylloxanthins) are yellow pigments that occur widely in nature and form one of two major divisions of the carotenoid group.
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Xanthophyll - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Xanthophylls are yellow pigments that are one of the important divisions of the carotenoid group. The word xanthophylls is made up of the Greek word xanthos, ...
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Plant pigments – the xanthophylls - Woodlands.co.uk
The xanthophylls are yellow pigments. Their molecular structure is similar to that of the carotenes. Xanthophylls have some oxygen as well in their structure.
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xanthophyll
xanthophyll Chem. (ˈzænθəʊfɪl) [ad. F. xanthophylle (Berzelius), f. Gr. ξανθός yellow + ϕύλλον leaf.] a. The yellow colouring-matter of leaves in autumn, a constituent or derivative of chlorophyll; also called phylloxanthin. (Now recognized as an oxygenated carotenoid identical with lutein.)1838 R. ...
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Xanthophylls - PMC
Xanthophylls may be cancer preventative as scavengers of free radicals, quenchers of reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species, and chain-breaking ...
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Xanthophyll cycle – a mechanism protecting plants against oxidative ...
Six different xanthophyll cycles have been described in photosynthetic organisms. All of them protect the photosynthetic apparatus from photodamage caused by ...
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The roles of specific xanthophylls in photoprotection - PNAS
Xanthophyll pigments have critical structural and functional roles in the photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes of algae and vascular plants.
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Xanthophyll: Health benefits and therapeutic insights - ScienceDirect
Xanthophyll has been reported to exert very beneficial effects in preventing oral diseases like oral lichen planus (OLP) and alveolar bone loss ...
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Shedding light on the dark side of xanthophyll cycles
Xanthophyll cycles are broadly important in photoprotection, and the reversible de-epoxidation of xanthophylls typically occurs in excess ...
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What are the uses of xanthophyll? - Quora
Their function is to absorb blue light to protect the plants and algae from photo-damage and absorb the light energy for use in photosynthesis.
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Antheraxanthin
It is a xanthophyll cycle pigment, an oil-soluble alcohol within the xanthophyll subgroup of carotenoids. The xanthophyll pool, or total xanthophyll cycle pigment levels are sometimes abbreviated as “VAZ” in scientific literature.
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violaxanthin
violaxanthin Biochem. (ˌvaɪələˈzænθɪn) [a. G. viola-xanthin (Kuhn & Winterstein 1931, in Ber. d. Deut. Chem. Ges. LXIV. 327): see viola1 and xanthin.] A xanthophyll, C40H56O4, occurring as a yellow pigment in daffodils and some other plants.1931 Chem. Abstr. XXV. 3351 The petals of the yellow pansy ...
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Capsorubin
Capsorubin is a natural red dye of the xanthophyll class. As a food coloring, it has the E number E160c(ii).
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zeaxanthin
zeaxanthin Biochem. (ziːəˈzænθɪn) [a. G. zeaxanthin (P. Karrer et al. 1929, in Helvetica Chim. Acta XII. 791): see zea and xanthin.] A xanthophyll, C40H56O4, originally isolated from Indian corn, Zea mays.1929 Chem. Abstr. XXIII. 4480 (heading) Zeaxanthin, a new carotinoid pigment in maize. 1934 [se...
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Myxoxanthophyll
As a monocyclic xanthophyll, it has a yellowish color.
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