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Carotenoids DB: Buxus sempervirens   [   About  |   Help  |   Search carotenoid entry  |   Search organism entry  |   Search similar carotenoids  |   Predict biological activities of a carotenoid   ] Organism name Buxus sempervirens                                Find images with Google NCBI taxonomy ID 4002 Lineage Lineage (full); root; cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; stem eudicotyledons; Buxales; Buxaceae; Buxus; Description Land plant: common box  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Buxus sempervirens carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]  CA00364  Monoanhydroeschscholtzxanthin  (Ref.271)    CA00325  Eschscholtzxanthin    References Ref.271 : Kazuko Ida, Kazumori Masamoto, Takashi Maoka, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Satomi Takeda, Emiko Hasegawa, Journal of Plant Research, September 1995, Volume 108, Issue 3, pp 369-376, "The leaves of the common box,Buxus sempervirens (Buxaceae), become red as the level of a red carotenoid, anhydroeschscholtzxanthin, increases"    Search other references with Google Scholar