| Use as a colorant of a material comprising as the color-imparting agent chromoplast particles containing crystalline lycopene. |
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| In Lycopersicon peruvianum, another anemophilous species, the pathway is the same but without the chromoplast stage. |
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| Carotenoids also called tetraterpenoids are brightly colored natural organic pigments found in the chloroplast and chromoplast nearly in all families of plants and some other photosynthetic organisms. |
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| In non-green plastids crystal formation is simply driven by enhanced carotenoid biosynthesis, and does not require the activation of intrinsic developmental programs to drive chromoplast development. |
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| Plants store beta-carotene in chromoplasts, and beta-carotene bioavailability is affected by chromoplast structure in plant tissues, such as fruit flesh. |
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