Color and chirality: Carotenoid self-assemblies in flower petals

Planta

Volumn 213, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 937-942

  Zsila, Ferenc ^a   Deli, József ^b   Simonyi, Miklós ^a  

^a Curriculum Resource Center Budapest   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Chiral self assembly; Chromoplast ultrastructure; Circular dichroism; Nematic mesophase; Petal

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CHIRALITY; CHROMOPLAST; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; FLOWER COLOR; PETAL; XANTHOPHYLL;

BIODIVERSITY; COLOR; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

CHROMOPLAST;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 0034776643     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250100569     Document Type: Article

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