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β-carotene has been identified as the major carotenoid pigment in two Ascomycetous fungi, the parasitic Epichloë typhina (with restriction to the sexual stroma and additional presence of traces of α-carotene) and the ascocarp of Helotium citrinum. In the Basidiomycete Calocera viscosa, cryptoxanthin appears as the second major carotenoid to β-carotene.
Neurosporene has been found as the major carotenoid in the dull yellow Cantharellus infundibuliformis. This partially saturated polyene is accompanied by traces only of lycopene whereas a reverse neurosporene/lycopen ratio is apparently present in the related, yellow Cantharellus lutescens.
No carotenoids but quinone-like reacting pigments were detected in the grey Cantharellus cinereus and the orange red Guepinia helvelloides.
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Turian, G. Identification des caroténoïdes majeurs de quelques champignons Ascomycètes et basidiomycètes Neurosporène chez Cantharellus infundibuliformis. Archiv. Mikrobiol. 36, 139–146 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00412281
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