carotin
Americannoun
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Yellow tomatoes have only carotin as their skin-pigment, while lycopersicin is usually present in the flesh of the ripe fruits of all varieties and in the skin of red ones.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
Associated with it are other pigments, which have been variously reported as carotin, phycoxanthin, etc.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
It is unlike carotin and xanthophyll in that it has basic properties, forming salts with acids, which are blue in color.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
This observation suggested the chemical relation between the vitamine and carotin.
From The Vitamine Manual by Eddy, Walter H.
This group includes the two brilliant yellow pigments, carotin and xanthophyll, and the reddish brown fucoxanthin and the brilliant red lycopersicin, which are similar in their chemical composition.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
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