Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "xanthophylls"

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    • A salt lake extremophile, Paracoccus bogoriensis sp.nov., efficiently produces xanthophyll carotenoids 

      Osanjo, George O; Muthike, Elizabeth W; Tsuma, Leah; Okoth, Michael W; Bulimo, Wallace D.; Lünsdorf, Heinrich; Abraham, Wolf-Rainer; Dion, Michel; Timmis, Kenneth N; Mulaa, Francis J. (Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Technology, 2009)
      A Gram-negative obligate alkaliphilic bacterium (BOG6T) that secretes carotenoids was isolated from the outflow of Lake Bogoria hot spring located in the Kenyan Rift Valley. The bacterium is motile by means of a polar ...