Pigments in Fruits and Vegetables: Genomics and Dietetics

ISBN-13: 9781493946013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 277 str.

Chunxian Chen

Opis

This comprehensive treatise provides a systemic and insightful overview of current advances in the biosynthetic genomics/genetics and preventive dietetics of carotenoids, flavonoids and betalains, from a general perspective, and in specific fruits and vegetables as well.

Spis treści

Ch. 1: Overview of Plant Pigments

            Chunxian Chen

 

Ch. 2: Carotenoids Biosynthesis Genomics

            Amanda Ferreira Da Silva Mendes

Virgínia Lúcia Fontes Soares

Marcio Gilberto Cardoso Costa

 

Ch. 3: Carotenoids in Human Nutrition

            Phyllis E. Bowen

Maria Stacewicz-Sapuntzakis

Veda Diwadkar-Navsariwala

 

Ch. 4: Differential Transcription Factor Networks Orchestrate Flavonoid Biosynthesis

            Lílian Cristina Baldon Aizza

Marcelo Carnier Dornelas

 

Ch. 5: Flavonoids Dietetics: Mechanisms and Emerging Roles of Plant Nutraceuticals

            Arti Parihar

Erich Grotewold

Andrea I. Doseff

 

Ch. 6: The Betalain Secondary Metabolic Network

            Gregory J. Hatlestad

Alan Lloyd

 

Ch. 7: Indicaxanthin Dietetics: Past, Present and Future

            Maria A. Livrea

Luisa Tesoriere

 

Ch. 8: Pigments in Citrus

            Chunxian Chen

Angela Roberta Lo Piero

Fred Gmitter Jr.

 

Ch. 9: Pigments in Grape

            Christopher L. Owens

 

Ch. 10: Pigments in Strawberry

            Jeremy Pillet

Kevin M. Folta

 

Ch. 11: Carotenoids in Carrot

            Claudia Stange Klein

Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion

 

Ch. 12: Carotenoids in Green Vegetables and Health Aspects

Julie Garden-Robinson

 

Ch. 13: Anthocyanins in Staple Crops

Katia Petroni

Roberto Pilu

Chiara Tonelli

O autorze

Chunxian Chen is a member of the Citrus Research and Education Center for the University of Florida. His research interests include genomics and bioinformatics, gene cloning and expression profiling, and breeding and selection in citrus.

Blurb

This comprehensive treatise provides insight into pigment biosynthesis and dietetics. The text includes current reviews on the genomics of carotenoid, flavonoid, and betalain biosynthesis in plants and the dietetics of these pigments in humans. Pigments biosynthesized in plants are a source of attractive colors in nature and essential nutrients in our daily fruit, vegetable, and grain diet.  

Deciphered from general perspectives and specific fruits and vegetables, genomics focuses on enzymatic genes and regulatory molecular mechanisms in the biosynthesis pathways to produce these pigments in plants. Dietetics focuses on the nutritional and medical benefits to human health from these pigments as nutrients, nutraceuticals, and disease prevention agents when they are ingested from pigment-abundant plant food and metabolized in human body. This work contributes to an expanding awareness of the dietetic benefits to the daily consumption of  pigment-rich fruit, vegetable, and grain food