Fruit flesh betacyanin pigments in Hylocereus cacti

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 6086-6089

  Wybraniec, Sławomir ^a   Mizrahi, Yosef ^b  

^a CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Betacyanins; Betalains; Betanin; Cactaceae; Dragon fruit; H. costaricensis; H. purpusii; H. undatus; Hylocerenin; Hylocereus polyrhizus; Phyllocactin; Pitahaya; Pitaya; Vine cacti

Indexed keywords

BETACYANIN; BETALAIN; BETANIN; CYANINE DYE; HYLOCERENIN; PHYLLOCACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FRUIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYLOCEREUS; PLANT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BETACYANINS; CACTACEAE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FRUIT; HEMOCYANIN; INDOLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CACTACEAE; HYLOCEREUS COSTARICENSIS; HYLOCEREUS UNDATUS; LEPTOCEREUS QUADRICOSTATUS; STENOCEREUS STELLATUS;

EID: 0037048769     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf020145k     Document Type: Article

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