Tuesday 8 October 2013

Chlorophyll Chromatography | Causes of Color

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Xanthophylls are the typical yellow pigments of leaves. These are oxygenated carotenoids that are synthesized within the plastids. Xanthophylls do not require light for synthesis, so that xanthophylls are present in all young leaves as well as in etiolated leaves.

Xanthophylls in leaves have an important function as accessory pigments, capturing certain wavelengths of sunlight not absorbed by chlorophylls, and thereby increasing overall absorptance of the visible spectrum of sunlight.

There is growing evidence that certain xanthophylls are especially important to plants when exposed to high solar radiation, for preventing damage within the chloroplast. In a process called the xanthophyll cycle, a cellular pool of violaxanthin (a diepoxide) is present in the plastids at dawn, and that compound is changed through an intermediary compound called antheraxanthin (a monoepoxide) into zeaxanthin (epoxide-free) as sunlight intensity increases. At peak solar irradiance, much of the xanthophyll pool therefore exists as zeaxanthin, but this is converted back into violaxanthin for the next day. The purpose of making zeaxanthin is to absorb excessive energy that chlorophyll cannot use, dissipating that unused energy so that the photosynthetic apparatus is not damaged.
Xanthophyll Colour
Ingredients :
Lutein, Emulsifier, Carrier
Stability : 
Heat : Good
PH (Colour Range) :Light to Dark Yellow
Light : Good.
Product Code :PEAX - 111 (a)
PEAX - 111 (b)
Concentration :1% (Liq.) Lutein
0.5% (Liq.) Lutein
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