Purification and some characteristics of precarthamin, a precursor of carthamin, isolated from the florets of Carthamus tinctorius L.
An unstable flame-coloured pigment, tentatively named precarthamin, was isolated as orange-yellow microneedles with 0.12% yield from the yellow florets of Carthamus tinctorius L. through many purifying steps. The precarthamin could be enzymically converted to a red pigment, which was identified as c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Polish Botanical Society
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae |
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| Online Access: | https://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/3160 |