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Lycopene: Progress in microbial production
2016-10-01
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Carotenoids are an important group of natural and liposoluble pigments found in plants and microorganisms, displaying yellow, orange or red color. They act as membrane-protective antioxidants which efficiently scavenge 1O2. . Lycopene is a red carotenoid with potential in alleviating chronic disease such as some types cancers and coronary heart disease, its production is from vegetable sources (e.g. tomatoes) and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a070db52-cf0a-515a-a567-77b6ed1cbc09
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- 10.1016/j.tifs.2016.08.013