Carotenoid profiling of tropical root crop chemotypes from Vanuatu, South Pacific

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 763-771

  Champagne, Antoine ^a   Bernillon, Stéphane ^b,d   Moing, Annick ^b   Rolin, Dominique ^c   Legendre, Laurent ^a   Lebot, Vincent ^e  

^a Laboratory of Plant Biotechnologies Applied to Aromatic and Medicinal Plants   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d Bordeaux Functional Genomic Center   (France)

^e CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Agrobiodiversity; Aroids; Carotenoids; Cassava; Food composition; HPLC DAD; Sweet potato; Yams

Indexed keywords

DIOSCOREA ALATA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 78649776220     PISSN: 08891575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2010.03.021     Document Type: Article

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