Bull. Spec. CORESTA Congress, Vienna, 1984, p. 51, S09, ISSN.0525-6240
Tobacco carotenoid metabolites from readily available starting materials
KAISER R.; KRASNOBAJEW V.; HELMLINGER D.
Givaudan Research Company Ltd., Duebendorf, Switzerland
During the last decades a large number of norisoprenoids has been indentified in tobacco leaf extracts. Around 80 of them are thought to arise by degradation of carotenoids such as beta-carotene and lutein. Since carotenoids are widely spread in...