Carotenoid Pigments in Red, Orange and Yellow Fleshed Fruits of Watermelon (Citullus vulgaris) Cultivars
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Studies on carotenoids in watermelon flesh
Carotenoids are responsible for the different flesh colors in watermelon fruit, such as white, salmon yellow, orange, pale yellow, canary yellow, crimson red, and scarlet red. In red-fleshed watermelons lycopene constitutes the major pigment and -carotene the secondary. The predominant carotenoid in yellow-fleshed watermelon is neoxanthin. Lycopene content in watermelon is related to genotype ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0013-7626,1880-358X
DOI: 10.2503/jjshs.56.45