Abstracto

Lycopene as Cartenoid

Caburatan L

Carotenoids conjointly referred to as tetraterpenoids, are yellow, orange, and red organic pigments that are made by plants and protoctist, also as many bacterium, and fungi. Carotenoids offer the characteristic color to pumpkins, carrots, corn, tomatoes, canaries, flamingos, salmon, lobster, shrimp, and daffodils. Carotenoids will be made from fats and different basic organic metabolic building blocks by of these organisms. The sole land home arthropods far-famed to supply carotenoids are aphids, and spider mites, that nonheritable the power and genes from fungi. It's conjointly made by endosymbiotic bacterium in whiteflies. Carotenoids from the diet are keeping within the fatty tissues of animals, and solely carnivorous animals acquire the compounds from fat