lycopenen.
/ˈlʌɪkəʊpiːn/ Chemistry.
A polyunsaturated hydrocarbon, C40H56, which is a red carotenoid pigment present in tomatoes and many berries and fruits.
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1935 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 112 424 In an investigation of the plastid pigments of marsh dodder,..α- and β-carotenes, γ-carotene, lycopene, and rubixanthin have been isolated.
1950 Genetics 35 209 Tomatoes which contain principally beta-carotene differ from those which contain mostly lycopene by a single incompletely dominant gene.
1972 T. W. Goodwin & E. I. Mercer Introd. Plant Biochem. xi. 279 The conversion of phytoene into coloured carotenoids involves a stepwise desaturation to neurosporene and lycopene which are then converted into the cyclic carotenoids.
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