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AssigneeBall Horticultural Company
InventorsRandal Hauptmann, Blair L. Winner, Alan Blowers
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A marigold plant, a regenerable portion thereof and seed are disclosed whose flower petals, leaves or flower petals and leaves contain one or more of an enhanced neoxanthin plus violaxanthin ratio, an enhanced β-carotene ratio, an enhanced lycopene ratio, an enhanced α-cryptoxanthin ratio, an enhanced phytoene ratio or an enhanced phytofluene ratio relative to that ratio in a non-mutant marigold. A marigold plant, a regenerable portion thereof and seed are also disclosed whose flower petals contain zeaxanthin esters and are substantially free of esters of both neoxanthin and violaxanthin, and wherein zeaxanthin constitutes at least about one-half of the extractable carotenoids when xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols. Also disclosed are methods of preparing such plants, oleoresins and comestible materials that have such carotenoid ratios.
Tagetes erecta flower petals, leaves or both flower petals and leaves that contain zeaxanthin pigment and β-carotene pigment and are substantially free of lutein, and wherein the zeaxanthin pigment plus the β-carotene pigment together constitute at least about one-half of the total carotenoid pigments present and wherein the xanthophylls pigments are assayed as alcohols, said flower petals, leaves, or both flower petals and leaves being from a plant that is a chemically-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
Tagetes erecta flower petals that contain zeaxanthin pigment esters and are substantially free of esters of both neoxanthin pigment and violaxanthin pigment, and wherein zeaxanthin pigment constitutes at least about one-half of the extractable carotenoids, wherein xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols, said flower petals being from a plant that is a chemically-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
A Tagetes erecta plant, or a regenerable portion thereof, whose flower petals contain zeaxanthin pigment esters and are substantially free of esters of both neoxanthin pigment and violaxanthin pigment, and wherein zeaxanthin pigment constitutes at least about one-half of the extractable carotenoids, wherein xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols, said plant being a chemically-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
Tagetes erecta flower petals, leaves, or both flower petals and leaves that contain zeaxanthin pigment and β-carotene pigment and are substantially free of lutein, and wherein the zeaxanthin pigment plus the β-carotene pigment together constitute at least about one- half of the total carotenoid pigments present and wherein the xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols, said flower petals, leaves, or both flower petals and leaves being from a plant that is an ionizing radiation-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
Tagetes erecta flower petals that contain zeaxanthin pigment esters and are substantially free of esters of both neoxanthin pigment and violaxanthin pigment, and wherein zeaxanthin pigment constitutes at least about one-half of the extractable carotenoids, wherein xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols, said flower petals being from a plant that is an ionizing radiation-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
A Tagetes erecta plant, or a regenerable portion thereof, whose flower petals contain zeaxanthin pigment esters and are substantially free of esters of both neoxanthin pigment and violaxanthin pigment, and wherein zeaxanthin pigment constitutes at least about one-half of the extractable carotenoids, wherein xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols, said plant being an ionizing radiation-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
A food additive comprised of Tagetes erecta flower petals dry or native hydrated form as plucked from a flower head form that contain one or more of a zeaxanthin pigment and β-carotene pigment and are substantially free of lutein, and wherein the zeaxanthin pigment plus the β-carotene pigment together constitute at least about one-half of the total carotenoid pigments present and wherein the xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols, said flower petals being from a plant that is a chemically-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
A food additive comprised of Tagetes erecta flower petals dry or native hydrated form as plucked from a flower head form that contain one or more of a zeaxanthin pigment and β-carotene pigment and are substantially free of lutein, and wherein the zeaxanthin pigment plus the β-carotene pigment together constitute at least about one-half of the total carotenoid pigments present and wherein the xanthophylls are assayed as alcohols, said flower petals being from a plant being an ionizing radiation-induced mutant or a hybrid thereof.
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