Biosynthesis is the generation of natural products through enzymatic reactions, as in cellular metabolism. Successive enzymatic reactions by a number of enzymes are generally required to achieve a ...

Provitamin A biofortification, the provision of provitamin A carotenoids through agriculture, is regarded as an effective and sustainable intervention to defeat vitamin A deficiency, representing a ...

Carotenoid excited-state properties are characterized and compared in reaction centers (RCs) of wild-type (WT) Rhodobacter (Rb.) sphaeroides, and a mutant VR(L157), in which the near-infrared ...

where SPC is the specific total carotenoid concentration (μg.g-1), A 474 is the absorbance at 474 nm, V is the filtrate volume (mL), and m is the dry cell mass (g).. To calculate the volumetric ...