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Carotenoids DB: Zea mays   [   About  |   Help  |   Search carotenoid entry  |   Search organism entry  |   Search similar carotenoids  |   Predict biological activities of a carotenoid   ] Organism name Zea mays                                Find images with Google NCBI taxonomy ID 4577 Lineage Lineage (full); root; cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; Mesangiospermae; Liliopsida; Petrosaviidae; commelinids; Poales; Poaceae; PACMAD clade; Panicoideae; Andropogonodae; Andropogoneae; Tripsacinae; Zea; Description Land plant: corn  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Zea mays carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]  CA00065  (9Z,9'Z)-ζ-Carotene  (Ref.437)    CA00053  (9Z,15Z,9'Z)-ζ-Carotene  (Ref.437)   References Ref.437 : Faqiang Li, Christina Murillo and Eleanore T. Wurtzel, Plant Physiology June 2007 vol. 144 no. 2 1181-1189, doi: http:/​/​dx.​doi.​org/​10.​1104/​pp.​107.​098996, "Maize Y9 Encodes a Product Essential for 15-cis-ζ-Carotene Isomerization"    Search other references with Google Scholar