carotenoids 

 Table 14 



Fungi in which early workers ^' ^ have reported the presence of carotenoids, 

 but which have not recently been investigated 



Ascobolus spp. (not A. furfuraceus^) Peziza {Lachned) scutellata 



Calocerca cornea Phragmidium violaceum (f) 



Calocerca palmata Pilobolus crystallinus 



Calocerca viscosa Pilobolus kleinii 



Chytridium spp. Pilobolus oedipus 



Coleosporium Pulsatilla Poly stigma ochraceum (fulvum) 



Ditiola radicata Puccinia coronata 



Leotia lubrica Saccharomyces (spp.) 



Lycogola flavofuscum Sphaerostilbe coccaphili 



Melampsora aecidioides Spathularia flavida 



Melampsora salicis capreae Stemonitis spp. 



Nectria cinnabarina Triphragmium ulmariae 



Peziza aurantia Uredo (Coleosponum) euphrasie 



Peziza (Lachnum) bicolor Uromyces alchemille 



t See also Table 13. 



REFERENCES TO TABLE 14. 



1. ZoPF, W. fl890), Die Pilze. Breslau. Trewendt. 



2. Kohl, F. G. (1902), Untersuchungen uber das Carotin und seine physiologische Bedeutung 



in der Pflanze. Leipsig. Borntrager. 



3. Goodwin, T. W. (1952), Biochem. y., 50, 550. 



A review on fungal carotenoids has recently appeared. ^ ^ 



Myxomycetes 



I^ederer, ^ ^ who has carried out a considerable amount of important 

 work on fungal carotenoids, extracted two pigments from Lycogala 

 epidendrom. Although not definitely confirmed these pigments appear 

 to be rhodoviolascin {see p. 121) and torulene (see p. 105). 



Phycomycetes 



Carotene has been detected in the spore-bearing cells of Phycomyces 

 blakesleeanus,^^'^* Pilobolus kleinii ^^ and Mucor hiemalis.^^ In 

 Phycomyces Schopfer and Jung^^ claim that carotene is the p-isomer 

 ** because of its marked vitamin A activity," whilst Castle i* considered 

 it to be a-carotene. Karrer and Krause- Voith, ^ ' however, state that 

 the main pigment is ^-carotene which is accompanied by a little a- 

 carotene. This has been confirmed by Bernhard and Albrecht^^ and 

 Garton, Goodwin and Lijinsky. ^ »• * <> Bernhard and Albrecht ^ * also 

 reported the presence of lycopene in traces and Schopfer and Grob * ^ 

 state that 5 carotenoids occur in their strain (Z) of Phycomyces. Good- 

 win ■ ' has recently confirmed the presence of lycopene and has shown 



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