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Carotenoids DB: Carica papaya   [   About  |   Help  |   Search carotenoid entry  |   Search organism entry  |   Search similar carotenoids  |   Predict biological activities of a carotenoid   ] Organism name Carica papaya                                Find images with Google NCBI taxonomy ID 3649 Lineage Lineage (full); root; cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; malvids; Brassicales; Caricaceae; Carica; Description Land plant: papaya  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Carica papaya carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]  CA00043  Lycopene  (Ref.566)    CA00044  Prolycopene  (Ref.126)    CA00051  ζ-Carotene  (Ref.566)    CA00198  Rubixanthin  (Ref.126)    CA00309  β-Carotene  (Ref.566)    CA00322  β-Cryptoxanthin  (Ref.566)    CA00396  β-Carotene 5,6-epoxide  (Ref.566)    CA00593  α-Cryptoxanthin  (Ref.126)    CA00682  Tunaxanthin F  (Ref.126)   References Ref.566 : U Gamage Chandrika, Errol R Jansz, SMD Nalinie Wickramasinghe and Narada D Warnasuriya, J Sci Food Agric 83:1279–1282 (online: 2003), DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.1533, "Carotenoids in yellow- and red-fleshed papaya (Carica papaya L)" Ref.126 : Barreto, Gisela P. M.; Fabi, Joao P.; De Rosso, Veridiana V.; Cordenunsi, Beatriz R.; Lajolo, Franco M.; do Nascimento, Joao R. O.; Mercadante, Adriana Z., Journal of Food Composition and Analysis (2011), 24(4-5), 620-624., "Influence of ethylene on carotenoid biosynthesis during papaya postharvesting ripening"    Search other references with Google Scholar