6 Betalains
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 14: Plant Pigments and their Manipulation
Jean-Pierre Zrÿd,
Laurent Christinet,
Jean-Pierre Zrÿd
Laboratory of Plant Cell Genetics, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Universite' de Lausanne, CH, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Search for more papers by this authorLaurent Christinet
Laboratory of Plant Cell Genetics, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Universite' de Lausanne, CH, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Search for more papers by this authorJean-Pierre Zrÿd,
Laurent Christinet,
Jean-Pierre Zrÿd
Laboratory of Plant Cell Genetics, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Universite' de Lausanne, CH, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Search for more papers by this authorLaurent Christinet
Laboratory of Plant Cell Genetics, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Universite' de Lausanne, CH, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Search for more papers by this authorThis article was originally published in 2004 in Plant Pigments and their Manipulation, Volume 14 (ISBN 9781405117371) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Kevin M. Davies. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Betalain Pigments
- Chemistry
- Physiology of Betalains
- Genetics of Betalains
- Enzymology and Biotechnology
- Evolution of Betalains
- Social and Economic Value
- Prospectives
- Acknowledgements
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