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Exploring fungal biodiversity for the production of water-soluble pigments as potential natural food colorants.
Sameer Shamsuddin Mapari,Kristian Fog Nielsen,Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen,Jens Christian Frisvad,Anne S. Meyer,Ulf Thrane +5 more
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Fungi provide a readily available alternative source of naturally derived food colorants that could easily be produced in high yields and with advances in gene technology, in the future it should be possible to employ metabolic engineering to create microbial cell factories for the production of foodcolorants.About:
This article is published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2005-04-01. It has received 260 citations till now.read more
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Recent advancements in natural dye applications: a review
TL;DR: In this article, a review encompasses a summary of research performed in last 15 years (1998-2013) in different arenas of applications of natural dyes, with specific reference to technological development in natural textile dyeing and use of natural Dyes in functional finishing of textiles, food coloration and dye-sensitized solar cells.
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Microorganisms and microalgae as sources of pigments for food use: a scientific oddity or an industrial reality?
Laurent Dufossé,Patrick Galaup,A. Yaron,Shoshana (Malis) Arad,Philippe Blanc,Kotamballi N. Chidambara Murthy,Gokare Aswathanarayana Ravishankar +6 more
TL;DR: Five productions, using Monascus, Penicillium, Dunaliella, Haematococcus and Porphyridium, are discussed, which involve combinatorial engineering and production of niche pigments not found in plants.
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Technologies for Extraction and Production of Bioactive Compounds to be Used as Nutraceuticals and Food Ingredients: An Overview
G. Joana Gil-Chavez,José A. Villa,J. Fernando Ayala-Zavala,J. Basilio Heredia,D.R. Sepulveda,Elhadi M. Yahia,Gustavo A. González-Aguilar +6 more
TL;DR: The most commonly used methods for their extraction are the conventional liquid-liquid or solid-liquid extraction and the advanced methods include pressurized liquid extraction, subcritical and supercritical extractions, and microwave-and ultrasound-assisted extractions.
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Bacterial pigments and their applications
TL;DR: This review summarizes the current technology status and challenges, economics, novel strategies for production of bacterial pigments and metabolic engineering of bacteria with a focus on applications of bacterial Pigments in food industry, pharmaceutical industry, dyeing as well as on other applications.
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Azaphilones: Chemistry and Biology
TL;DR: This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards sustainable resource utilization in the field of bioresource chemistry and its applications in the context of integrated resource management and integrated resource utilization.
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Encyclopedia of physical science and technology
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Fungal melanins: a review
M J Butler,A W Day +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship of polyketide melanogenesis molecular biology to that of nonmelanin-producing pathways in a wide range of fungi and other organisms is discussed and fungal melanin properties are compared with those of animal and bacterial melanins.
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Colouring our foods in the last and next millennium
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TL;DR: A review of the use of colour in the food industry can be found in this article, where the authors address the question of the future of colours in the next decade and present a list of permitted synthetic colours.
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Mycotoxins, drugs and other extrolites produced by species in Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
TL;DR: The 58 species in Penicillium subgenus Penicillsium produce a large number of bioactive extrolites (secondary metabolites), including several mycotoxins, and several reported producers are reidentified and new producers of known extrolite families are reported for the first time.