C(35)-apocarotenoids in the yellow mutant Neurospora crassa YLO.

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The Neurospora crassa mutant YLO exhibits a yellow phenotype instead of the red-orange pigmentation of the wild type. Recently, it was shown that the mutant YLO is defective in a specific aldehyde dehydrogenase which catalyses the last step of carotenogenesis to the formation of neurosporaxanthin [Estrada, A.F., Youssar, L., Scherzinger, D., Al-Babili, S., Avalos, J., 2008. The ylo-1 gene encodes an aldehyde...

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