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Carotenoids DB: Lactuca virosa   [   About  |   Help  |   Search carotenoid entry  |   Search organism entry  |   Search similar carotenoids  |   Predict biological activities of a carotenoid   ] Organism name Lactuca virosa                                Find images with Google NCBI taxonomy ID 75947 Lineage Lineage (full); root; cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; asterids; campanulids; Asterales; Asteraceae; Cichorioideae; Cichorieae; Lactucinae; Lactuca; Description Land plant: wild lettuce, bitter lettuce, laitue vireuse, opium lettuce, poisonous lettuce, tall lettuce, great lettuce or rakutu-karyumu-so  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Lactuca virosa carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]  CA00309  β-Carotene  (Ref.265)    CA00597  Lutein  (Ref.265)   References Ref.265 : B. Mour, J. Amer. Soc. Hort, Sci. 130(6):870-876 2005, "Genetic Variation of Beta-Carotene and Lutein Contents in Lettuce"    Search other references with Google Scholar