Covering: 1992 to 2007 Blue flower colors are primarily due to anthocyanin, a flavonoid
pigment. Anthocyanin itself is purple in neutral aqueous solutions, and its color is very …

Flavonoids are one of the major pigments in higher plants, together with chlorophylls and
carotenoids. Though ca. 8,000 kinds of flavonoids have been reported in nature …

Almost a century after Muriel Wheldale's landmark publication,“The Anthocyanin Pigments of
Plants”(Wheldale, 1916), much about anthocyanin function in plants remains to be …

Advances in the flavonoid field have been nothing short of spectacular over the last 20
years. While the medical field has noticed flavonoids for their potential antioxidant …

Anthocyanins occur widely in plants, being responsible for their blue, purple, violet,
magenta, red and orange coloration; while betalains, consisting of red-violet betacyanins …

The color of food is critical to the food and beverage industries, as it influences many
properties beyond eye-pleasing visuals including flavor, safety, and nutritional value. Blue is …

Flavonoid compounds distribute widely in vascular plants and Bryophytes, and ca. 5,000
kinds have been reported as naturally occurring substances. Many biological activities of the …

Although anthocyanin (ACN) biosynthesis is one of the best studied pathways of secondary
metabolism in plants, the possible physiological and ecological role (s) of these pigments …

This study aimed to optimise the experimental conditions of extraction of the phytochemical
compounds and functional properties of Centaurea cyanus petals. The following parameters …

The same anthocyanin pigment makes roses red but cornflowers blue, a phenomenon that
has so far not been entirely explained. Here we describe the X-ray crystal structure of the …