Publications by authors named "Chiharu Takagi"
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- Crocetin glycosides, like crocin, are recognized as beneficial for health, particularly in preventing chronic diseases and cancer, but their stability during cooking is not fully understood.!* -
- This study found that crocetin glycosides in saffron remain stable when boiled for 20 minutes, but undergo structural changes when grilled at high temperatures, affecting their bioactivity.!* -
- New crocetin glycosides were identified in freesia flowers, and their potential as edible flowers was explored; both saffron and freesia glycosides demonstrated moderate abilities to quench singlet oxygen, indicating antioxidant properties.!*
Background: Members of the genus Planococcus have been revealed to utilize and degrade solvents such as aromatic hydrocarbons and alkanes, and likely to acquire tolerance to solvents. A yellow marine bacterium Planococcus maritimus strain iso-3 was isolated from an intertidal sediment that looked industrially polluted, from the Clyde estuary in the UK. This bacterium was found to produce a yellow acyclic carotenoid with a basic carbon 30 (C) structure, which was determined to be methyl 5-glucosyl-5,6-dihydro-4,4'-diapolycopenoate.
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