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Organism name
Crocus sativus                                Find images with Google

NCBI taxonomy ID
Lineage
Description Land plant: saffron crocus  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Crocus sativus carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

CA00832  β-Citraurin  (Ref.145)


CA01064  Picrocrocin 


CA01082  Crocusatin H  (Ref.485)


CA01063  (3S)-3-Hydroxycyclocitral  (Ref.454)


CA01065  Safranal 


CA00986  Mangicrocin 


CA00985  (13Z)-Crocetin  (Ref.321)


CA00898  Crocin 


CA00886  Crocetindial  (Ref.145)


References
  • Ref.145 : Frusciante, Sarah; Diretto, Gianfranco; Bruno, Mark; Ferrante, Paola; Pietrella, Marco; Prado-Cabrero, Alfonso; Rubio-Moraga, Angela; Beyer, Peter; Gomez-Gomez, Lourdes; Al-Babili, Salim; et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2014), 111(33), 12246-12251., "Novel carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase catalyzes the first dedicated step in saffron crocin biosynthesis"
  • Ref.485 : Li CY, Wu TS, Journal of Natural Products [2002, 65(10):1452-1456], DOI: 10.1021/np020188v, "Constituents of the stigmas of Crocus sativus and their tyrosinase inhibitory activity."
  • Ref.454 : Sarah Frusciantea,b, Gianfranco Direttoa, Mark Brunoc, Paola Ferrantea, Marco Pietrellaa, Alfonso Prado-Cabrerod, Angela Rubio-Moragae, Peter Beyerc, Lourdes Gomez-Gomeze, Salim Al-Babilic,d, and Giovanni Giulianoa, PNAS, August 19, 2014, pp.12246–12251, vol. 111, no. 33, "Novel carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase catalyzes the first dedicated step in saffron crocin biosynthesis"
  • Ref.321 : Pfander, H., and Wittwer, F. (1975) Carotinoid-Glykoside 2. Mitteilung Untersuchungen zur Carotinoid-Zusammensetzung im Safran, Helv. Chim. Acta 58, 1608–1620.

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