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Carotenoids in Some Lichen Species from Ireland*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

B. Czeczuga  and
D. H. S. Richardson
B. Czeczuga
Affiliation:
Department of General Biology, Medical Academy, ul. Kilinskiego 1, 15–230 Bialystok, Poland
D. H. S. Richardson
Affiliation:
School of Botany, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Abstract

Column and thin-layer chromatography revealed the presence of the following carotenoids in the thalli of seven lichen species from Ireland: α-carotene, β-carotene, β-cryptoxanthin, lutein, 3'-epilutein, adonixanthin, α-doradexanthin, canthaxanthin, astaxanthin, antheraxanthin, lutein epoxide, neoxanthin and violaxanthin. The total content of carotenoids ranged from 11.9 μg g−1 dry wt in Menegazzia terebrata to 21·3 μg g−1 dry wt in Usnea rubicunda.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 363 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1989

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Footnotes

Part 23 in the series ‘Investigations on Carotenoids in Lichens’.

References

Part 23 in the series ‘Investigations on Carotenoids in Lichens’.