Purification and some characteristics of precarthamin, a precursor of carthamin, isolated from the florets of Carthamus tinctorius L.
Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Mizu Wada, Koshi Saito
Abstract
An unstable flame-coloured pigment, tentatively named precarthamin, was isolated as orange-yellow microneedles with 0.12% yield from the yellow florets of Carthamus tinctorius L. through many purifying steps. The precarthamin could be enzymically converted to a red pigment, which was identified as carthamin by its chromatographic and spectral properties. The content of precarthamin was examined at the various growth stages of the Carthamus flowers.
Keywords
Carthamus tinctorius L.; safflower; precarthamin; carthamin
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp.1984.017
Journal ISSN:- 2083-9480 (online)
- 0001-6977 (print; ceased since 2016)
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