Crocins with High Levels of Sugar Conjugation Contribute to the Yellow Colours of Early-Spring Flowering Crocus Tepals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rubio Moraga, Angela ^a   Ahrazem, Oussama ^a,b   Rambla, José Luis ^a,c   Granell, Antonio ^c   Gómez Gómez, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b Fundacion Parque Cientifico y Tecnologico de Albacete   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; CROCETIN GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; CROCIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; RHAMNOSE; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHROMATOPHORE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS; CROCUS ANCYRENSIS; CROCUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS; CROCUS CHRYSANTHUS; CROCUS KOROLKOWII; CROCUS SATIVUS; CROCUS SIEBERI; CROCUS VITELLINUS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FLOWER COLOR; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PISTIL STIGMA; SUGAR CONJUGATION; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; COLOR; CROCUS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERANYLGERANYL-DIPHOSPHATE GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RHAMNOSE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPICES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84884127286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071946     Document Type: Article

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